Lithuania, a country approximately the size of West Virginia, is situated on the southeast shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania’s existence is currently being threatened by nuclear power plants (NPPs) which Belarus and Russia are planning to build adjacent to Lithuania’s eastern and southwestern borders.
One NPP containing two reactors, will be situated in Astravets, Belarus, approximately 12 miles east of Lithuania and about 31 miles from its capital city of Vilnius. The other set of two reactors will be constructed in the Kaliningrad enclave approximately 6 miles south and west of Lithuania’s border...