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dalia-grybauskaite"A second set of priorities that I see for myself and this government is a further reduction of dependence on a single source. First of all, this involves putting forward three bills during the spring session, namely: the LNG law, the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) law, and amendments to the Law on Heating Sector... talks on the Visaginas NPP (VAE) and debates on the required laws will be one of the key tasks during the parliamentary spring session." Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuanian President, on 12 January 2012 (source: BNS)

France will build a second European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR), said President Sarkozy pledging a "new industrial revolution.” “The era of inexpensive oil is over. Every EPR saves every year 2 billion m3 of gas when it replaces a gas-fired power plant and eleven billion tonnes of CO2 when it replaces a coal-fired power plant. Nuclear power is more than ever an industry of the future and an essential form of energy." President Nicolas Sarkozy, on 3 July, at the Industeel plant in Le Creusot in the Burgundy region