[1]Yahoo! News [2]Home - [3]Yahoo! - [4]My Yahoo! - [5]News Alerts - [6]Help _________________________________________________________________ [7]Associated Press Question: How low should your APR be? [My Visa card's APR should be...] ________________ [8]Home | [9]Top Stories | [10]Business | [11]Tech | [12]Politics | [13]World | [14]Local | [15]Entertainment | [16]Sports | [17]Science | [18]Health Yahoo! News World Headlines Tuesday August 31 10:35 AM ET Ukraine To Complete 2 Nuke Reactors KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine will need more than two years to complete two new nuclear reactors before the Chernobyl power plant can be closed, unless Western nations help finance the project, the country's nuclear energy chief said Tuesday. The former Soviet republic presently finances construction of the reactors on its own, while outside financial aid would allow the country to finish both by 2000, said Mykola Dudchenko, who heads the state nuclear energy company Energoatom. ``But irrespective of whether we get the assistance or not, these reactors will be built,'' Dudchenko told a news conference. The reactors at the Khmelnytsky and Rivne nuclear plants are more than 80 percent finished, and Ukraine says it needs both in order to compensate for the energy that would be lost when Chernobyl shuts down. Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 exploded and caught fire in April 1986, spewing radiation over large areas of Ukraine and neighboring former Soviet republics of Russia and Belarus. Presently, only one reactor remains operational at Chernobyl. Western nations have been slow to help and some argue that Ukraine, whose nuclear power plants provide more than 40 percent of the country's electricity, could find alternative energy sources. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________ ______ ___ Search News Stories ___ Search News Photos [19]Sep 04 | [20]Sep 03 | [21]Sep 02 | [22]Sep 01 | [23]Aug 31 | [24]Aug 30 | [25]Aug 29 | [26]Aug 28 | [27]Aug 27 | [28]Aug 26 [29]Home | [30]Top Stories | [31]Business | [32]Tech | [33]Politics | [34]World | [35]Local | [36]Entertainment | [37]Sports | [38]Science | [39]Health _________________________________________________________________ [40]Questions or Comments Copyright © 1996-1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. References 1. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ 2. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ 3. http://www.yahoo.com/ 4. http://my.yahoo.com/ 5. http://alerts.yahoo.com/config/set_notification?.t=n 6. http://help.yahoo.com/help/news/ 7. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ap/?http://www.ap.org 8. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ 9. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/ 10. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bs/ 11. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/tc/ 12. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/pl/ 13. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ 14. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lo/ 15. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/en/ 16. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sp/ 17. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sc/ 18. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/hl/ 19. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990904/wl/index.html 20. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990903/wl/index.html 21. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990902/wl/index.html 22. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990901/wl/index.html 23. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990831/wl/index.html 24. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990830/wl/index.html 25. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990829/wl/index.html 26. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990828/wl/index.html 27. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990827/wl/index.html 28. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ap/story.html?s=v/ap/19990826/wl/index.html 29. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ 30. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/ 31. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bs/ 32. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/tc/ 33. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/pl/ 34. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/ 35. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lo/ 36. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/en/ 37. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sp/ 38. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sc/ 39. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/hl/ 40. http://help.yahoo.com/help/news/