VILNIUS - Lithuanian officials are attempting to dispel fears in Belarus over plans to build a radioactive waste repository facility near the border.
Vidmantas Verbickas, first secretary of the Lithuanian Embassy in Minsk on economic affairs, told the Baltic News Service that a studies were being carried out on alternatives for storing the radioactive waste, which will come from the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, and that the public will be present with all the results.
Belarusian authorities have expressed outrage at the idea of such a storage facility so close to its border, and some officials have suggested that the country could strike back at its neighbor by building an enormous pig-farm on the Belarusian side of the border.
