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General Electric Interested In Lithuania Nuclear Power Plant Project
Vilnius (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 US conglomerate General Electric is interested in a project to build a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, officials said here Tuesday. "Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas today had a meeting with representatives of General Electric, who said the company wants to take part in the construction of the new nuclear plant," the prime minister's spokeswoman said. "The prime minister said that an open tender is to be announced for the construction of the new reactor and invited General Electric to take part in it," she told AFP. German energy giant E.ON has already expressed interest in the project to build a new nuclear facility in Lithuania to replace the ageing Ignalina plant, while France's Areva group, Canada's AECL, and Mitsubishi of Japan have said they are ready to supply nuclear technologies to build the new facility. The electricity companies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania recently set up a working group with their Polish counterpart to discuss bringing Poland into a project to build a new nuclear power station to replace Ignalina, which uses reactors similar to the one that exploded at Chernobyl in 1986, provoking the world's worst nuclear disaster. Lithuania promised the European Union, which the Baltic state joined in 2004, to shut down Ignalina by 2009. A feasibility study conducted last year by the Baltic energy companies predicted the new facility would not come onstream before 2015. The feasibility study also showed that a new single-reactor plant with a capacity of 800 Megawatts, or a two-reactor, 1,600-Mw facility would require an investment of 2.5 billion to four billion euros. If Poland is brought on board, the capacity of the plant could be increased to 3,200 Megawatts, with a corresponding hike of the final price tag, to five billion euros (6.5 billion dollars).
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Israel Should Develop Nuclear Energy
Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 23, 2007Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer on Tuesday hinted that his country should consider producing nuclear power for civilian purposes. "It is our duty to keep the option to produce energy through other ways," Ben Eliezer said in a speech at an annual conference on Israel's national security in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. |
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