Lithuania in a nuclear frenzy

The city council of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas has decided to commission a study on the construction of a mini nuclear power station that would provide energy to municipal utilities. The daily Lietuvos Rytas is critical of the move: "The representatives were in a nuclear frenzy at their meeting: Kaunas will become the nuclear city, cut off its connections with [Russian gas giant] Gazprom and proclaim energy independence from Russia. And surprise surpise: homes, kindergartens, schools and public authorities will all be supplied with cheap electricity and heat. … For their part critics of this utopia are asking whether we couldn't get hold of mini nuclear bombs for personal use, and store them on the balcony or in the pantry for example. Meanwhile it's sad enough that from the end of the year Lithuania's only nuclear power station will stop producing electric tension and only create social tension."

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