Echoes of the past: Aging nuke plants add to Europe’s economic woes

In this Dec. 15, 2009 file photo, a worker walks around Reactor 2 at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, two weeks before the facility was decommissioned.
VISAGINAS, Lithuania (AP) — The parking lot outside the atomic power plant is weedy and potholed. Bus stops that once teemed with hundreds of workers are eerily empty.
Yet the stillness at Ignalina, a Lithuanian nuclear plant built in the 1980s Soviet era, belies an unsettling fa...
Published: 11/18/2012
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