Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
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Oil above $100. Gas prices up 70%. Every crisis has a different trigger—and the same vulnerability. Europe must become the world's first Electro-Continent.
  • FrustratedArtist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    Latvia never had a nuclear power plant. Lithuania did, in Ignalina, that started operations back in 1983. It was also the same design as the one in Chernobyl, with the same design flaw, and that was only addressed after the disaster in '86. The building didn’t have a proper containment structure, so yes, the recommendation was to shut it down.

    The problem is that the plans for replacement never came to fruition, and decommissioning costs went through the roof. All due to incompetence of the government.

    • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      Everything was fixable. They just didn’t want competition in, and now energy is just super expensive. Same design still operational in Russia and causes no issues

        • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          11·
          6 days ago

          It is though. They have universal healthcare and working social system. Electrical and utilities are lowest prices on the planet

          • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            Is universal healthcare why hiv is spreading rampantly and the life expectancy is at the bottom half of the world, one of the lowest for a developed country?

            There is universal healthcare and a working social sytem in theory, not in practice. That doesn’t even account for the loss of life from the way where over a million are, avoidable, dead. They aren’t values, they just churn them like meat to grind.

            People are seeking to flee Russia, not move there.