Defying Europe once again, Belarus plugs Astravets nuclear power plant into national grid

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 […]