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Lithuania’s nuclear reactor closes down

Lithuania to shut its only nuclear power station By Gabriel Gatehouse BBC News 31 December 2009

Lithuania is to shut down its one and only nuclear power station in Visaginas on 31 December.

One hour before midnight, staff at the Ignalina plant will flick the switches, shutting down the only nuclear reactor in the Baltic states.

The closure of the Soviet-era plant was a condition of Lithuania’s membership of the European Union…..It was built to the same design as Chernobyl, which was behind the worst civil nuclear disaster in history when one of its reactors overheated in 1986.

December 31, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear technology, nuclear wastes