RIGA - Progress has also been made recently in the battle against another environmental sore point located near the Latvian border - the Ignalina nuclear power plant.When green activists staged their hunger strike outside of the Lithuanian Embassy, they were also protesting the continued operation of this plant, whose two reactors follow the same design used at Chernobyl. Unlike reactors in the West, those at Ignalina have no containment system. In the event of an accident, radiation would be released directly into the air.As the plant is located just 45 kilometers from the Latvian border, ...
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