Chernobyl is one of the great tragedies of history, I knew it was catastrophic hadn't realized the quantity of radiation was the equivalent of 500 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. That's horrible especially for the people living their daily lives nearby without realizing it for 36 whole hours. It must be terribly worrisome to raise a family in those conditions, to be cursed with a higher possibility of radiation caused mutations.

Lukashenko once again shows his lack of caring for people or the economy or for anything other than himself. Can we be sure that the people working on the nuclear plant are fully competent and have the experience to do this right? When there's a lot of turnover and low pay, that suggests that a disaster is in the making! People might forget to say exactly what's left to do and maybe a key component goes missing because communication is hampered!

Lithuania is in an awkward spot - they don't want it, presumably most people of Belarus don't want it, but the powers that be just want to go ahead with it. It's ridiculous that this has to be funded with borrowing money from other countries; does it solve any actual problems? While I may be in favor of cleaner power in general (wind and solar are cleanest; nuclear - if handled properly - has potential), the precondition for using nuclear as clean power is that, well, the waste has proper disposal and that the building doesn't have a risk of blowing up. It's fine to continue to use dirty power like coal over nuclear in this case, I think, since my impression is that the expertise for nuclear might simply not be there.