Lithuania shuts Soviet-era nuclear plant

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http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40891


Lithuania shut down its nuclear power plant in Ignalina last week, raising fears of increased energy dependency on Russia and of a further blow to an already recession-hit economy.

The Baltic state shut down the last reactor at the Ignalina plantexternal on Thursday (31 December).

It agreed to shut the plant, which has the same kind of reactors as at Chernobyl, the site of the worst nuclear accident in 1986, under its agreement to enter the European Union.
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and last Aug. jellyfish closed down a nuke plant in Sweden