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Russia building Belarus nuclear plants without consulting neighbouring countries

Lithuanian president criticizes Russia over new nuclear plants | World | RIA Novosti, 15 June 2010, The sites for two new nuclear power plants, in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave and in Belarus, were selected with no environmental assessment and without consulting neighboring countries, Lithuania’s president said on Monday.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite made the accusations at a meeting with the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, who is on a visit to Vilnius.

“The president deplored the fact that sites for these power plants were selected without having clear-cut criteria, without conducting an environmental impact assessment and without consulting the neighboring countries more extensively,” the Lithuanian president’s office said in press release.Russia is building the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant in its Kaliningrad exclave and has agreed with Minsk to construct a nuclear plant in Belarus. Lithuanian president criticizes Russia over new nuclear plants | World | RIA Novosti

June 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Belarus, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, reactors, uranium