VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A new poll shows nearly half of Lithuania's population have turned against nuclear energy following the catastrophe at a Japanese reactor.
A poll for Lithuanian magazine Veidas released Monday showed 88 percent of Lithuanians, traditionally supportive of nuclear power, now oppose plans to build a new power plant — an increase of 47 percent since January.
Some 42 percent of those polled said the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster had made them change their minds.
The March 28-30 poll surveyed 500 people and had a margin of error of 3 percent.
Lithuania was one of the world’s most nuclear-energy dependent countries before it closed its Soviet-era plant in Ignalina in 2009.
The Baltic country has said it will build a new nuclear facility.
