At a press conference before…public hearings on plans to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus…civic organizations...presented serious arguments against the project. A Civic Environmental Impact Assessment was carried out in Belarus...Andrei Ozharovsky, a nuclear physicist...warns: “…[T]hey are proposing a Russian project “AEC-2006” with a VVER-1200 reactor. Such a nuclear power plant has never been constructed or therefore tested in practice anywhere. We were also told that the RBMK Chernobyl reactor was reliable and safe. There are…no grounds for believing this technology to be safe. The idea is that Belarusians and Ukrainians become guinea pigs…for trying out the Rosatom project...”…The Head of…“Ecoclub”, Andriy Martynyuk points out that…[t]he official assessment of the Belarusian nuclear power plant does not consider the impact from dealing with used nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes…The general conclusion was that the plan could have an adverse effect on the environment and health in Ukraine…