Ukraine began the construction of a Centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, said the Company " Energoatom ", the operator of the Ukrainian NPPs.
" Given the real start of construction of a Centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel (cheat), which will give you the opportunity to strengthen energy independence of the country and will help the development of the Russian fuel and energy complex ", - informed on the Internet representation " Energoatom ". The presence of cheat assume that Ukraine will remove the issue of export of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), almost half of which country currently exports to the Russian Federation for storage and processing, RIA " Novosti ". According to the examination results, spending on the construction and operation of the repository will be almost four times less than the total costs, which today bears Ukraine, discharge fuel into the Russian Federation. It is assumed that investments in cheat will pay not more than four years of operation." since the signing in 2005 of the contract between Energoatom and Holtec (USA) it's been nine years, but only now we were able to cross all the bureaucratic obstacles and get to the physical execution of the major project. This became possible only because of the support of the government, which acknowledged and returned to the nuclear industry status priority industry ", - noted the head of " Energoatom " Yuriy Nedashkovsky. Today, the share of Ukrainian nuclear power plants accounts for almost 50% of the total volume of all electricity produced in the country. For this reason, the development of conditions for long-term and secure storage of spent fuel is a strategic priority of the energy industry of Ukraine, says the Company.

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