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'Since the first full-scale pressurised water reactor (PWR) was connected to the grid 63 years ago, there has been no single fatality caused by any accident on PWR-based power plants anywhere in the world' (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Belarus nuclear plant: right of reply

Belarus' new nuclear power plant in Ostrovets has long been a vexing subject for European policymakers. Anti-nuclear groups and neighbouring Lithuania have been campaigning against the project from day one.

Picture sinister Russians planting something radioactive next to the EU borders.

Add the words of anti-nuclear activists talking about simmering fears of a disaster and calls for European solidarity from an EU member state, ...

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Vladimir Gorn is executive officer for Eastern Europe of Rosatom nuclear corporation.

'Since the first full-scale pressurised water reactor (PWR) was connected to the grid 63 years ago, there has been no single fatality caused by any accident on PWR-based power plants anywhere in the world' (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Vladimir Gorn is executive officer for Eastern Europe of Rosatom nuclear corporation.

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