Kiev promised to terminate the agreement with Russia on a nuclear fuel plant for nuclear power plants
Ukraine plans to terminate the contract with Russia on construction of plants for the production of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants, said the head of the Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn. "the contract until not broken, we will terminate, they do not fulfill their obligations ", - said Demchyshyn, RIA " Novosti ". Ukrainian concern "Nuclear fuel" and the fuel in 2011 signed a contract for the construction of this enterprise. The construction was planned to near the village of Smolino in the Kirovograd region of Ukraine. It was expected that the plant capacity of 400 tons of uranium per year has the opportunity to be put into use in 2013, but construction has not begun. The fuel Company of the state Corporation " Rosatom ", JSC "TVEL" in the beginning of July this year announced its readiness to implement the project on construction of the enterprises of nuclear fuel and expects Ukrainian partners proposals for implementation of the project. TVEL noted that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has considered and approved design and estimate documentation for construction of enterprises, the Ukrainian side also no funding was provided for the project. The Russian Firm reported that, for its part, it fully and in time fulfilled all its obligations. Subsidiaries the fuel was manufactured technological equipment for the first stage of the enterprise, held a provisional acceptance, with the participation of the customer - Ukrainian-Russian joint venture.