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Belarusian nuclear reactor begins commercial production amid protests from the Baltics  via Bellona

Published on November 4, 2020 by Charles Digges Belarus’ first nuclear power plant began operating Tuesday, a project that has caused jitters in neighboring Lithuania, which immediately cut off electricity imports from the Belarusian plant. The Russian-built Ostrovets nuclear power station, 40 kilometers … Continue reading

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Belarus cranks up 1st nuclear plant; Lithuania is fearful via AP

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus’ first nuclear power plant began operating Tuesday, a project that has spooked its neighbor Lithuania, which immediately cut off importing electricity from Belarus at the news. The Russian-built Astravyets nuclear power plant, 40 kilometers (25 miles) … Continue reading

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Belarus Receives IAEA Equipment to Assess Radiological Threats Associated with Forest Fires via IAEA

When forest fires occur on sites with significantly elevated radiation levels, as in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone straddling Ukraine and Belarus last month, officials and the public want to know whether there is an elevated level of radiation risk. While there … Continue reading

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IAEA Mission Expected To Belarus In February Over Nuclear Power Station Under Construction via RadioFree Europe RadioLiberty

[…] Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed off on the nuclear power plant back in 2008, partly to lessen the country’’ dependence on Russia to meet its energy needs. The nuclear power plant, however, is being built by Russian companies contracted … Continue reading

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Lithuania to ask Belarus to switch nuclear plant to gas via Reuters

VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuanian prime minister Saulius Skvernelis will ask Belarus to convert its Russian-built nuclear power plant to gas provided by Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and a planned gas link between Lithuania and Poland.  The nearly-completed nuclear … Continue reading

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Gomel to host scientific conference on recovery from radiation accidents via Belarus News

GOMEL, 25 September (BelTA) – Scientists from five countries will discuss recovery from radiation accidents at the international conference Radiobiology: Challenges of the 21st Century due in Gomel from 27 to 29 September, BelTA learned from Yekaterina Klementyeva, the academic … Continue reading

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Nuclear accountability curbed by EU politics and industry interests via EUObserver

A meeting of the parties to the UN convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context (Espoo) took place last week in Minsk, Belarus. Among other things, it helped to showcase the influence that politics and the nuclear industry … Continue reading

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A Preventable Nuclear Threat You Most Likely Don’t Know About via National Geographic

Vilnius, Lithuania–A tiny European country at the edge of the western world worries that it is in the path of what could be the next Chernobyl-level disaster. The government of Lithuania fears a Russian nuclear reactor under construction in its … Continue reading

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Is solar power in nuclear disaster exclusion zones advisable? via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

By Arnold Gundersen A July 2016 article in The Guardian said that the country of Ukraine has been soliciting funds for a proposed project to turn extensive swathes of ground adjacent to Chernobyl into a gigantic solar collector full of … Continue reading

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The First Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus Is a Dangerous Fiasco via GIZMODO

In July, construction workers at the Astravets nuclear power plant in Belarus dropped a 330 ton reactor shell. Weeks went by before the government admitted an “abnormal situation” had occurred, prompting international concerns about safety at the Russian-built facility—and the … Continue reading

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