That was said by Juan Carlos Lentijo, Deputy Director General and Head of the IAEA Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, in an interview to BNS. “I visited the construction site last year and, in my opinion, it is a serious project,” he added. According to him, Belarus should improve contacts with Lithuania to prove that it is committed to nuclear safety. In mid-January, IAEA representatives completed a SEED (Site and External Events Design) mission in Ostrovets and concluded that Belarus had minimized all possible external hazards on the site (Read the full story in the upcoming issue).