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Lithuanian candidates to the parliamentarian election pledge nuke rethink
Sat, 13 October 2012
By Vaidotas Beniusis — Lithuania’s centre-left opposition has promised a sweeping review of the country’s energy policy if it wins tomorrow’s election, held in tandem with a referendum on building a nuclear plant. On top in the opinion polls, the Social Democrats say they oppose the current Conservative government’s plans to construct a replacement for the Baltic state’s lone atomic facility, shut down in 2009.
Despite rising global anti-nuclear sentiments following the 2011 tsunami disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant, Lithuania has pushed ahead with plans involving neighbours Latvia and Estonia.
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