Lithuania in search of new partners to build a nuclear power plant

Lithuania said it seeking new partners to build a new nuclear power plant instead a station in Ignalina it wants to shut down over safety fears. The current partners -- Latvia, Poland and Estonia -- are not happy, because Vilnius has control over 34 percent of the project shares. Lithuania said that it might possibly invite Ukraine to join the project. The Ignalina nuclear power plant will be shut down in 2009, because it operates the Soviet-made Chernobyl-type reactors.

The station's closure was also one of the conditions Lithuania had to meet in order to join the European Union, reports Novonews.

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