(26 Feb 2010)
Visaginas, Lithuania - February 23, 2010
1. Wide shot Ignalina nuclear power plant
2. Wide of swans in a lake near power plant
3. Wide shot Visaginas street
4. Wide of apartment building
5. Mid shot woman looking out of the window
6. Close up interior Rima Denisevic pouring water into tea pot
7. Mid shot Denisevic takes cups with tea from table
8. Close up electricity bill on the table
9. Wide of Denisevic and her daughter Olga seated at table
10. Close up tea mug on the table
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Rima Denisevic, pensioner, Visaginas citizen:
"The thing is that with the (nuclear) plant shut down our town has absolutely no future. First of all we have a high rate of unemployment, nothing is being built, moreover institutions like schools are being shut down because of the economic situation and because there is no heating there. This is all going to collapse soon. I am not worried for myself, I have lived a life, but I am worried for my children and grandchildren."
14. Close up exterior Lithuanian flag on a building
13. Wide of Visaginas Administration building
14. Close up sign
15. Wide shot interior people in the administration building corridor
16. Mid shot same
17. Set up shot Neli Sysojeva, head of Social Welfare Department of Visaginas Administration
18. Cutaway flowers on the desk
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Neli Sysojeva, head of Social Welfare Department of Visaginas Administration:
"1230 people have applied for compensation already. And we have 2500 more in a queue, we already have appointments even for May 25th (2010). So, we still have a stream of people, which has not dried up, and we expect maybe a 1000 more people to apply for compensation."
20. Wide of people in the corridor of administration
21. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) Olga Traidiene, housewife, Visaginas citizen:
"We used to pay less then people in the rest of Lithuania for electricity because we lived near the nuclear plant. And now it appears that we still live near the nuclear plant, we are still in that zone, but all the social benefits have been cancelled. So now we are sitting here, waiting for God knows what..."
22. Wide exterior shot of building where Visaginas Construction Workers Club is situated
23. Close up man looking out of the window
24. Mid shot of woman greeting a man entering
25. Mid shot woman sorting out big photographs of nuclear plant and other town buildings
26. Cutaway photograph of the nuclear plant
27. Mid shot man and woman looking at photograph of the plant
28. Close up woman putting tray with tea cups and cookies on the table
29. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Denisov, pensioner, former head of local Construction Directorate:
"You know, the feeling now is that we have come to a decay, absolute decay. It is not only (my) personal (feeling), but I think for every citizen who was brought up here and who worked hard here (feels the same way)."
30. Close up tea cups on the table
31. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) Elena Cekiene, head of the Non-Governmental Foundation for Combating Consequences of Nuclear Plant Shut-Down:
"I have been living here for 31 years, I love Visaginas. Today the town is very tense and the problems - first of all the heating problem - should be resolved. I feel very sorry for the people around me, they are pensioners and their pension is hardly enough to pay for heating. We should solve the heating price problem as soon as possible."
32. Close up Cekiene looking at photographs
33. Wide of Cekiene and pensioners looking at photographs
35. Mid shot officer getting out of car
41. Mid shot swans eating
LEADIN
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