Subject: HEADLINES November 21-22

Nov 21 (Reuter) - The nuclear power station at Ignalina in
northeast Lithuania - which has been described in the United
States as one of the most dangerous in the world - will not be
shut down before the next century, Lithuania's President
Algirdas Brazauskas said. On an official visit to Sweden, he
said it was likely that Lithuania would wait to close the
reactors until after Swedish reactors had been closed.

Nov 22 (Reuter) - Ukraine said it would modernise the stricken
Chernobyl nuclear power station - implying a prolonged life -
unless the West offered more money for closing it. Interfax
Ukraine news agency quoted Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk as
saying funding proposals from the Group of Seven industrial
countries were "absolutely unacceptable for us." A G7 plan
discussed at the last round of talks proposed $2.25 billion in
grants and credits for Ukraine, with the former Soviet
republic putting up $900 million of its own. Ukraine initially
wanted to get $4 billion from the G7.
Ukraine's big nuclear lobby says Chernobyl is the safest of
the country's five nuclear stations and could function into
the next century in the absence of a shutdown agreement.