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Lukashenka is ready to build two nuclear power stations in Belarus, not one.

Belarus is ready to construct a second nuclear power station, Alyaksandr Lukashenka has stated today at the meeting with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano.

“If you provide assistance, support and relevant conditions, we are ready to build a second nuclear power plant in Belarus,” said the dictator.

“We strongly believe that Mr. Amano, as well as previous leaders of this agency, would provide serious moral support in nuclear power plant construction,” Lukashenka noted.

He said that “we have been going through a special time in the aftermath of the events in Japan and problems with the nuclear power plant Fukushima, the public response to the catastrophe and the intention of Germany and other countries to shut down nuclear projects,” he explained.

That is why, he continued, “In this special period we resolutely state that we intend to build a nuclear power plant and we have already started the construction,” said the Belarusian head of state.

The President remarked: “I believe that the IAEA is an organization extremely interested in seeing such projects safely implemented across the globe,” Lukashenka stated.

As said by him, “it should be noted that this construction is going on in the country hugely affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe, yet it is building a nuclear station of its own.” “And it is remarkable that the population supports the project, we have managed to achieve that. And it is an important factor of the IAEA work in Belarus,” he said.

“I am strongly convinced that nuclear power engineering is the safest way to get cheap electricity, that atomic power is a must and that it is the safest way to acquire cheap energy that the world will need in larger and larger amounts,” the dictator noted.

In his turn, Yukiya Amano said; “Belarus is a very important partner for the International Atomic Energy Agency”, as the country has its own sad experience after the Chernobyl disaster. “Nevertheless, you plan to construct a nuclear power plant now,” he added.

Yukiya Amano remarked that the Fukushima emergency had drastically undermined people’s trust in nuclear power engineering. Some countries like Germany, for instance, “have decided to refrain from using atomic energy in the future but some countries have decided to give it a go,” the IAEA Director General said.

The head of the agency noted that “the problem of providing physical protection of nuclear objects remain serious”, among other things, because of climate changes.

He believes every country needs to develop power engineering, to improve living standards and therefore the decision on whether nuclear energy should be used is an important one, he stressed.

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