Yatseniuk wants to make wider interaction with the American Westinghouse
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Tuesday in Kiev, met with the President of the American Corporation Westinghouse Daniel Roderick, saying about the importance of expanding cooperation, informs the press-service of the government.
"The Prime Minister noted the importance of further expansion of cooperation factories Ukrainian nuclear energy sector with international partners, which provides an opportunity to strengthen the energy security of the country ", - informs the press-service.
in this context, Yatsenyuk greeted achieved not so long ago, the consensus between the company "Energoatom" and the American Corporation for the expansion of the program to diversify the supply of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
in 2012-2013 2 units of the South-Ukrainian NPP were reported irregularities in the fuel assemblies of American manufacturing. It turned out that these violations were caused by design defects Westinghouse. In the Ministry of energy of Ukraine assured that Westinghouse has improved the design of assemblies. However, experts see the decision of the Kyiv again to start the application on its nuclear fuel Westinghouse danger of nuclear safety in the field.
last week stated that the fuel assemblies of the organization Westinghouse, delivered at the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPP) in November 2014, in the near future will be downloaded to the third power station in connection with a successful inspection Assembly of the organization at this station.
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