🇱🇹🇪🇺☢️ Who benefited from the shutdown of Ignalina NPP in Lithuania?Recently, we wrote about the West's attempts to lead the Armenian government to shut down the Metsamor NPP, which was built back in the Soviet era and which now provides a third of the capacity of the Armenian energy system. It is not difficult to predict the likely result of this decision - soaring electricity prices and an economic crisis.If we talk about cases of "successful" shutdown of a nuclear power plant, Ignalina NPP will be a very instructive example.One of the conditions for Lithuania's accession to the EU was the closure of the only nuclear power plant in the Baltic States by 2009. Since it was impossible to simply demand to stop the highly profitable production of electric power, it was offered to build a new "nicer western" NPP in the same place.Nobody warned, however, that dismantling the old NPP and building a new one at the same time would be financially unaffordable for Lithuania - and even for all three Baltic states together. Thus, the industrial development of the region was put to an end: without a large power plant, it is impossible to supply energy for production.Read more: rybar.ru/kto-vyigral-ot…