The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, German Galushchenko, said that the national company Energoatom received the first batch of American nuclear fuel produced by the American company Westinghouse, Ukrainian publication Klymenko Time reported.
According to him, Energoatom loaded fuel into 440 reactors for the first time. Ukraine has also signed cooperation agreements with Slovakia, Finland and the Czech Republic. Galushchenko noted that in this way, the Russian Federation’s monopoly in this market ends.
Before that, in May, Galushchenko declarationHe said that Ukraine expects to maximize its own production of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants in order to exclude Russia from the world market.
England in August announced Ukraine was allocated $245 million for the purchase of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants. According to the Kingdom’s Energy Minister Grant Shapps, one of these sources will be the partly British consortium Urenco.
Dmitry Medvedev, formerly Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council statedThat Ukraine will disappear after the Northeastern Military District.