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While E.U. nations like Austria remain determined to retain their staunch anti-nuclear credentials, at least for the moment, others are embracing nuclear. Finland is building the first nuclear generating plant in western Europe since 1991. Sweden and the Netherlands are re-thinking their plans to abandon or phase out old nuclear plants. Lithuania, already more dependent on nuclear energy than France (via its single reactor), has agreed on a deal with Poland to construct a new plant. The reactor will provide electricity for Latvia and Estonia as well as Poland and Lithuania.

Belarus, which back in January 2007 felt the paw of the Russian bear on its oil pipeline, will start construction in 2008 on a plant that will begin generating in 2014. A list of 20 countries published in July 2007 by the World Nuclear Association identifies Italy (the only G8 country without its own nuclear power plant), Portugal, Norway, Ireland, and a group of eastern European countries, as