Defying Europe once again, Belarus plugs Astravets nuclear power plant into national grid - Emerging Europe | Intelligence, Community, News

Defying Europe once again, Belarus plugs Astravets nuclear power plant into national grid - Emerging Europe | Intelligence, Community, News: Impervious to international safety concerns, Belarus starts up its first nuclear power plant. “Cynical ignorance” is how Lithuania’s foreign minister, Linas Linkevicius, described the news that a nuclear power plant in neighbouring Belarus had been put into operation on November 3. The plant, at Astravets, which is less than 50 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital …