Ukrainian Company " Energoatom " and the American Westinghouse signed an agreement to increase the supply of nuclear fuel from the United States for nuclear power plants in Ukraine, said in the representation of Energoatom.
The transaction took place in Brussels, reports TASS. Before Tuesday, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine on Tuesday in Brussels will sign the contract with the American Westinghouse about the increase in the supply of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian NPPs. For reviews of commissioners of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Deal Kiev with Westinghouse ignores considerations of nuclear safety. First in Ukraine has announced plans by 2017 to increase the capacity of the plant. As reported in the print edition GLANCE, the fuel was planned to procure not Russia, and the American Westinghouse organization. It was noted that the American fuel in many ways inferior to the Russian, " native " for boilers, which operates in Ukraine. In 2012, the Ukrainian Rada made a clash with technical problems on the 2nd and 3rd blocks of the South-Ukrainian NPP. The difficulties were related to the " variations " of nuclear fuel FA-W, manufactured by Westinghouse. Because of this we had to unload all fuel assemblies and replace them with fuel produced in Russia.


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