Zaporizhzhya NPP wants to go on American fuel in 2016
Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is planning to upload the 1st batch of fuel American organization in the Westinghouse reactor 5-th power in 2016, said on Wednesday correspondents Deputy chief engineer for nuclear and radiation safety station Alexander Ignatchenko.
Boot (Westinghouse fuel - ed.) planned in the coming year to the fifth power unit " - quoted Ignatchenko to Ukrainian news.
currently, the station uses the Russian fuel production.
Now the Ukrainian authorities are trying to develop the country's nuclear energy because of the shortage of coal. While Kiev is willing to expand cooperation with Westinghouse for the supply of fuel for Ukrainian NPPs.
first, in 2012-2013, 2 units of the South-Ukrainian NPP were violations in the work of the fuel assemblies of American manufacturing. It turned out that these violations were caused by structural defects in Westinghouse. Experts see the decision of Kiev again to start the application at its nuclear power plants Westinghouse fuel the danger of nuclear safety in the field.
in March, the fuel assemblies of the organization of Westinghouse were loaded into the reactor of the 3rd power unit it is southern-the Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
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