Lithuania rallies against prospects of getting trapped in a nuke noose - Bellona - 0 views
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"As a threatening nuclear noose around Lithuania tightens, residents are getting organised to protest the proposed construction of three nuclear power plants (NPPs) - in Lithuania itself and neighbouring Russia and Belarus. If current plans succeed, the small Baltic republic may find itself ensnared in a dangerous triangle of three new sites, losing its hard-obtained status of a nuclear-free nation. Andrei Ozharovsky, 17/05-2010 - Translated by Maria Kaminskaya To make their concerns well-recognised, residents of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, held an anti-nuclear march last April 26 to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and demand a withdrawal of plans by Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania to build three new nuclear power plants in Neman in Russia's Kaliningrad Region, Ostrovets in Belarus, and Visaginas in Lithuania, respectively. They urged the three nations to start developing renewable energy as an alternative to the dangerous atomic plans. "