The IAEA has not received from Ukraine's request to inspect nuclear facilities
The IAEA has not received from the authorities of Ukraine pleas to help ensure the safety of nuclear facilities, said IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano on the first day of the week during a press conference.
" As for the nuclear safety of Ukraine, it is the responsibility of the authorities to provide the highest level of security. We are not aware of formal requests from Ukraine to take part in the course of securing and monitoring security at nuclear facilities. If they do, we will certainly consider it, " Amano said. He also said That the nuclear facilities in the Crimea, are not large and not to worry.
first of experts expressed concern about the plans of the Ukrainian authorities to apply produced in the U.S. fuel for its nuclear power plants. For example, stated That the Ukrainian " Energoatom " and the American organization Westinghouse have plans to sign a contract for production and delivery of nuclear fuel for three boilers Ukrainian NPPs. A few years ago at the Czech Temelin NPP accident happened on fuel elements (TVEL) produced by Westinghouse, after which the Czech Republic refused from the services of that provider.
in 2012-2013 2 power units of the South Ukrainian NPP were registered violations in the work of the fuel assemblies of American manufacturing. It turned out That these violations were due to design defects Westinghouse.
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