The Ukrainian leadership does not plan to abandon nuclear fuel supply from Russia, but for supplier selection will be guided by economic interests, said the Deputy Minister of energy and coal industry of the country Vadim Ulica.
" We do not say that We refuse the Russian fuel. Here the issue price. We also do not say that will work or with Russia, or only in Westinghouse. We will work with those who gives the best rule for Ukraine, so that was the reliability, safety and economic rules, " said Ulica, RIA " Novosti ". Remember, in early summer the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Kiev is diversifying the supply of nuclear fuel, renewed the contract with the American company Westinghouse. In early April, the head of the Ukrainian energy Ministry Yuriy Prodan said that the national nuclear energy generating Company " Energoatom ", which is the operator of all operating nuclear power stations of Ukraine, and Westinghouse in the near future have the opportunity to sign a contract for production and delivery of fuel to three Ukrainian nuclear boilers. However, at the end of the same month Energoatom said that does not want to revise the rules of the contract with the Russian Corporation TVEL to supply nuclear fuel. We emphasize that some time ago at the Czech Temelin NPP, where the reactors of the Soviet design was fixed depressurization fuel produced by Westinghouse, after which the Czech side refused from the services of that provider. In the spring of 2012 and 2013 in the process of scheduled preventive repair of the South Ukrainian NPP were registered violations in the work of the assemblies of the type of FA-W American production. It turned out that these violations were due to design defects fuel organizations Westinghouse. The Energoatom losses from the disaster have the opportunity to be more than 175 million dollars. Experts do not rule out that the transition of Ukrainian NPP fuel the U.S. also increases the probability of the cast to nuclear catastrophe.

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