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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Lithuania Chooses Hitachi-General Electric to Build Visaginas Nuclear Plant

Lithuania Chooses Hitachi-General Electric to Build Visaginas Nuclear Plant

Lithuania has chosen Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, a consortium of Japan’s Hitachi and General Electric of the US, as the strategic investor for the planned nuclear power plant in Lithuania. Runner-up in the bidding was another Japanese-US company, Toshiba-Westinghouse. This project should replace the Soviet-era nuclear power plant, which Lithuania had to shut down as a condition for joining the EU. That closure exacerbated the Baltic States’ dependence on Russia for energy.

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