As estimated by the country hosting the event required under the Espoo Convention, a hundred of people traveled to Astravyets to take part in the discussion on Saturday. More than a third, or 37 people, came from Visaginas, a town built as a satellite settlement to the now shut-down Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
People from Visaginas expressed support to the Astravyets nuclear facility being built at a distance of meager 50 kilometers from Vilnius.
“Visaginas looks on Astravyets with admiring envy. If anyone is dissatisfied that a nuclear power plant is being built here, we could exchange apartments,” Oleg Davydiuk, a resident of Visaginas, said during the discussion.
