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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1369/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1369",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 1369/2013 of 13 December 2013 on Union support for the nuclear decommissioning assistance programme in Lithuania, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1990/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1369",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Objectives",
  "text": "1. The general objective of the Ignalina programme is to assist the Member State concerned in implementing the steady process towards the decommissioning end state of units 1 and 2 of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in accordance with its decommissioning plan, whilst maintaining the highest level of safety.\n2. Within the funding period, the main specific objectives of the Ignalina programme are:\n(a) defueling of the reactor core of unit 2 and the reactor fuel ponds of units 1 and 2 into the dry spent fuel storage facility, to be measured by the number of unloaded fuel assemblies;\n(b) safely maintaining the reactor units, to be measured by the number of registered incidents;\n(c) performing dismantling in the turbine hall and other auxiliary buildings and safely managing the decommissioning waste in accordance with a detailed waste management plan, to be measured by the type and number of auxiliary systems dismantled, and the quantity and type of safely conditioned waste.\n3. The Ignalina programme may also include measures to maintain a high level of safety at the units under decommissioning, including support with respect to the nuclear power plants' personnel.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1369/article/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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