Ukrainian "Energoatom" has led a comparison of the price of fuel from U.S. and Russian Federation: no more than
The price of fuel, which the American Company Westinghouse supplies to Ukrainian NPPs, all time cooperation was not higher prices from the Russian TVEL Corporation, said the head of the state enterprise Energoatom, the largest producer of electricity in Ukraine, Yuriy Nedashkovsky.
today, TVEL, a part of the structure of the state Corporation " Rosatom ", is the main supplier of fuel for Ukrainian NPPs. "Energoatom" and cooperates with the American Westinghouse, which supplies fuel to the South-Ukrainian NPP.
Nedashkovsky clarified the difference in approaches: TVEL supplies Ukraine fully fuel assemblies in the kit, while the contract with Westinghouse built on the fact that Kiev supplies organizations enriched uranium, from which it produces nuclear fuel.
"If you compare the complex, we can say that nuclear fuel Westinghouse for the entire period of our collaboration has never been more expensive than the Russian nuclear fuel, but these figures can only be obtained by calculation," said Nedashkovsky at a press conference on Tuesday.
In addition, the President of Energoatom's asked a question that involves the addition to the contract with Westinghouse, which was signed at the end of 2014, and asked if I worked for the Ukrainian and American organizations with the ability to complete replacement of Russian fuel in case of a hypothetical failure of the Russian Federation to put it to Kiev for some reason.
Nedashkovsky responded that the amendment to the contract provides for the expansion of supply of nuclear fuel as amended), phased, but rather a serious build-up of those indicators that can be considered real diversification." The second essential condition of this contract is the opportunity ahead of time to prepare the force majeure, which you currently stated, "added Chapter" Energoatom ".
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