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Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2026/03/25/europe-3-energy-shocks-in-4-years-what-to-do-next/

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[โ€“] FrustratedArtist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything was fixable. They just didn't want competition in. Same design still operational in Russia and causes no issues

[โ€“] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, Russia is famous for its safety standards and care for her peoples welfare.

[โ€“] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It is though. They have universal healthcare and working social system

[โ€“] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours 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.