Ukraine has decided to abandon the joint construction of nuclear fuel plant
Ukraine intends to withdraw from the joint project on construction of a plant for the production of nuclear fuel, said the Minister of energy and coal industry Volodymyr demchyshyn. "This contract we will denounce. Most likely it will be the law, " said the Minister, reports the news Agency. at the same time, Ukraine did not want from the procurement of Russian fuel for its nuclear power plants and buys it in the West. So, on April 24 between French company AREVA and the Ukrainian national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom signed a contract for production and delivery of enriched uranium for nuclear power plants of Ukraine. March 20 was declared that on the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant was uploaded modernized fuel TVs-WR production in the us-Japanese Westinghouse organization in the reactor of the 3rd power unit of the station. on 18 March the Commissioner of Russia to the IAEA Board of governors Grigory Berdennikov said that Kiev's decision to apply manufactured by the American company Westinghouse fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants increases the probability of the cast to a major catastrophe. Remember, at the end of December of last year the Ukrainian Energoatom and the American Westinghouse signed an agreement to increase the supply of nuclear fuel from the US for nuclear power plants in Ukraine until 2020. In the capital of Russia alarmed by this letter, noting that the deal Kiev with Westinghouse ignores considerations of nuclear safety. In the IAEA told that Ukraine should be free to decide the issue of procurement of fuel for nuclear power plants.