SCHROEDER IN UKRAINE TO DISCUSS NON-NUCLEAR REPLACEMENT FOR CHORNOBYL. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived in Kyiv on 8 July to discuss the closure of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant with Ukrainian officials. Schroeder will try to persuade Ukraine to build or modernize conventional gas or coal-fueled power plants as replacements for the Chornobyl plant. For its part, Ukraine would prefer to finish the construction of two nuclear reactors in Rivne and Khmelnytskyy, which are about 85 percent complete. The former German government and the G-7 pledged financial assistance for the completion of those reactors. JM