Lithuanian tales of BelNPP

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is preparing to launch the first power unit. On New Year's Eve, testing of various systems began here, including safety systems for an open reactor.

This important event for Belarus once again caused a mixed reaction from high-ranking politicians in neighboring Lithuania.

They, like zombies, have been talking for a long time and at all levels about the insecurity of the nuclear power plant under construction near Astravets, hiding their own truth from their neighbors, and claiming that the plant being built in Belarus still does not meet international standards.

We are accustomed to the complaints of Lithuania and have not attached any importance to this for a long time. Through the media, Lithuanians on a permanent basis incite their citizens against the Belarusian nuclear power plant, and at any convenient or inconvenient opportunity they report their phobias to the European Commission.

However, what are high-ranking Lithuanian politicians silent about?

The last "duck" - with the construction of the station in Belarus, the radiation background will increase sharply in Lithuania. There is no evidence for this, but why not stir up the public with the next assumptions. At the same time, information that a repository for nuclear waste is being built almost next to the closed Ignalina nuclear power plant is kept like the apple of an eye. And this is just three kilometers from the border with the Republic of Belarus. 23 containers with spent nuclear fuel have already been placed in intermediate storage facilities, another 13 are planned to be loaded within a year, and then all this will be placed in a repository. And silence.

According to environmentalists, radioactive waste is the most dangerous type of garbage on our planet. They require careful and careful handling, as they will emit radiation for many more hundreds of years. This means that the Belarusians have every reason to check how their burial will be carried out, who will do it and under whose control.

It is difficult for Lithuania to compose only for Lithuanians - the repository of the Ignalina NPP is completely safe, but the Belarusian NPP is not. Therefore, instead of cheap Belarusian electricity, Lithuania will start buying expensive ones from the West - after all, according to some non-existent evaluation criteria, it is safe, while Belarusian electricity is scary and, probably, can bite the residents of Lithuanian high-rise buildings if it enters their homes. Moreover, the EU is quickly teaching Lithuanian politicians how to manage money economically within the economic union, and not give it to Belarus or Russia.

Not a single Lithuanian media over the entire period of the existence of the nuclear construction in Astravets has reported that experts from the international agency for nuclear energy have repeatedly visited the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant and studied all the parameters of the future plant. But experts confirmed that the Belarusian NPP uses unique

security systems. International experts on radiation safety have concluded that if the infamous Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima had used the same systems as in Astravets, then a large-scale accident could have been avoided.

And while our station is being built, the Lithuanians prefer to talk about its fictitious shortcomings than seriously think about the problems of storing nuclear waste from Ignalina. Instead of creating a group to solve their own problems that pose a threat not only to Lithuania, but also to their neighbors, the Lithuanians decided to assemble a group of their own experts to evaluate the results of the stress tests of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, which were submitted by Belarus to the European Commission in November 2017. The group had to prepare its comments and questions on the BelNPP stress tests by January 5, 2018. And the New Year is not a joy for Lithuanians, I thought to the statement posted at the end of last year on Lithuanian Internet resources.

The fifth of January is long in the past, but questions do not sound. They came to their senses in Lithuania by Christmas, when they said that the deadline had been postponed. The comments and questions of the Lithuanian State Nuclear Safety Commission regarding the report on stress tests at the Belarusian NPP presented to the international group of experts will be submitted by mid-January.

Well, soon the fairy tale is told, but the deed is not done soon - the Russian proverb says. Looking forward to another Lithuanian fairy tale. Composing it about BelNPP by mid-January will be much easier than dealing with waste from the closed Ignalina station.

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