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Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

1983–2009 · 20th century

The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was a Soviet-built nuclear power station at Visaginas in north-eastern Lithuania, with two RBMK reactors of the type used at Chernobyl. Its first reactor began operating in 1983, and at its height it produced most of Lithuania's electricity. As a condition of joining the European Union, Lithuania shut down the reactors in 2004 and 2009, and the plant is being decommissioned.

Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/ignalina-nuclear-power-plant
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