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Yushchenko: Despite Chernobyl, Ukraine plans nuclear power plants

Chernobyl NuclearVienna  - Despite the experience of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, the Ukraine plans to build new nuclear power plants, its president Viktor Yushchenko said in Vienna Tuesday.

Ukraine was planning to complete additional reactors by 2013 in order to meet its energy needs, Yushchenko said during an official visit to Austria.

Although nuclear energy remained a sensitive topic in his country following the 1986 reactor meltdown in Chernobyl, "we want to show to the whole world that we are very responsible when it comes to nuclear energy use," he said.

Austrian parties fix September 28 as election date

AustriaVienna - A day after the coalition between the Social Democrats and the conservative People's P

Incident in Hungarian nuclear plant due to maintenance error

Budapest, Vienna - Faulty maintenance procedures led to an incident in the Hungarian nuclear power plant in Paks on Monday, but no radioactivity was released, a report by Hungarian authorities to t

OPEC crude falls at the start of the week

Vienna - The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell below 139 dollars a barrel on Monday, data released by OPEC on Tuesday showed. 

Austrian conservatives in government call for new elections

Vienna- ­ Austria's conservative People's Party called for early parliamentary elections Monday, as their social democratic coalition partner was involved in a leadership crisis and recently change

OPEC crude slightly lower on Friday

OPECVienna- The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Export

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