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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8866

14 January 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Lithuania plans to build new nuclear power station

Brussels, 13/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Lithuania, which has made a commitment to the EU to close down its Chernobyl-type Ignalina nuclear power station by 2009, and which closed down one of the two reactors on 31 December last year for safety reasons, hopes to "keep its status as a country with nuclear power facilities, but cannot afford a new reactor", Prime Minister Alguirdas Brazauskas announced on Tuesday. The Prime Minister plans to appeal for international aid to build a new power...

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