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Publish date: November 9, 2007
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The Ignalina nuclear plant has the same type of reactors as those which caused the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, though Lithuania says its plant was made safer. It shut one reactor after joining the European Union and the other is due to be closed in 2009.
"There is no danger," said Andrius Baltuska, a civil protection official with Utenos district in eastern Lithuania, home to the power plant, according to Rueters.
He said a short circuit had shut down a generator, which had closed the whole plant.
News portal Delf quoted Valdis Arbaciauskas, head of Ignalina’s supply department, as saying that there had been no change in radiation levels and that the plant was likely to be closed for up to three days.
Lithuania has agreed to close the Ignalina plant under the terms of its entry to the European Union. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland are considering building a new plant to decrease their energy dependency on Russia.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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