The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: deal of Kiev with Westinghouse shows unacceptable hurry
The Treaty of Ukraine and the American Westinghouse organization to increase the supply of nuclear fuel shows unacceptable haste and disregard considerations of nuclear safety, reported Tuesday in a message to the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
" in principle steps in the conquest of new markets for nuclear fuel are not in conflict with current practice. However, in the case of Westinghouse unacceptable for nuclear power rush and ignoring considerations of nuclear security, " according to the online representation of the MFA.
Ukrainian Company " Energoatom " was signed on Tuesday in Brussels Treaty with the American Westinghouse on the supply of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian NPPs. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Brussels will also signed a contract with Westinghouse to increase the supply of nuclear fuel.
" Fuel assemblies manufactured by this company, many times demonstrated non-compliance to the quality of fuel for VVER-1000 reactor. Thus, attempts of its application in the Czech nuclear power plant Temelin has led to a serious incident. Download this fuel at Ukrainian NPPs also caused a series of accidents. Now we can talk about large-scale experiment is fraught with extremely serious accident ", - informs the website of the foreign Ministry.
" Of particular concern is the fact that all this is happening against the background of unstable situation in Ukraine in the conditions when political partisanship prevails over the nuclear safety requirements, and the ability of countries to respond to an emergency is substantially limited ", - reported in the report on the Internet presentation of the Ministry of foreign Affairs.