Anxieties, memories of Chernobyl, as Belarus launches new nuclear power station
Chernobyl fears as Belarus launches new nuclear power station: Lithuania distributes iodine tablets to 500,000 close to border over safety concerns
Daily Mail, RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE and AFP , 4 Nov 20, Belarus today launched its controversial Russia-built nuclear power station despite safety concerns from neighbouring Baltic states three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius criticised the launch saying it had gone ahead despite unresolved safety issues The government in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, has also offered free iodine tablets to around half a million people living close to the Belarus border to help protect them from radiation in case of an accident The Astravets nuclear power plant, Belarus’s first nuclear station, is just 30 miles away from Vilnius. ……… Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius criticised the launch saying it had gone ahead despite unresolved safety issues and described the energy project as ‘geopolitical’. The EU and the international community ‘simply cannot stay indifferent to such cynical ignorance,’ Linkevicius wrote on Twitter. Lithuania said it had immediately stopped electricity imports from Belarus and neighbouring Latvia said it had also blocked imports of energy generated at the plant.…….. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8909665/Chernobyl-fears-Belarus-launches-new-nuclear-power-station-despite-safety-concerns.html |
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