I can't find a source for it now, but I remember reading about an incident at Ignalia-1 in Lithuania, that foresaw the design issues that caused the Chenobyl in

I can't find a source for it now, but I remember reading about an incident at Ignalia-1 in Lithuania, that foresaw the design issues that caused the Chenobyl incident a few years before. Apparently it was reported, but the Soviet leadership decided not to do anything about it and keep it secret. Even though Ignalia-2 had the most advanced safety features of any RBMK reactor, a condition of Lithuania's EU membership was the plant be shutdown. As such the Baltic states have been very dependant on Russia for energy since the shutdown. Belarus is in the process of building a plant on the Lithuanian border. Although it's PWR and has many safety features RBMK didn't have, thanks to politics the lack of transparency over safety issues is rather concerning: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/09/belarus-under-fire-for-dangerous-errors-at-nuclear-plant https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/09/belarus-under-...