IAEA: Ukraine must decide for itself the question of purchase of fuel for nuclear power plants
Kiev is obliged to assert their own regulations on the purchase of fuel for nuclear power plants, said the Director General of the international atomic energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano.
"We cannot dictate to countries, what kind of fuel for nuclear power plants is suitable and what is not," said he." The organization can only assist individual States, hold meetings, " added Amano, reports TASS. CEO at the same time acknowledged that Ukraine " is the station with the Russian light-water reactors "." I haven't seen it station in Ukraine, however, was inspecting them in other places, for this reason I can say that they (the reactor) is very interesting ", - noted the head of the Agency. Remember, at the end of December last year, the Ukrainian Energoatom and the American Westinghouse signed an agreement to increase the supply of nuclear fuel from the United States for nuclear power plants in Ukraine up to 2020. In the capital of Russia anxiously took the letter, noting that the deal Kiev with Westinghouse ignores considerations of nuclear safety. We emphasize that Ukraine had previously announced plans by 2017 to increase the capacity of the plant. Fuel was planned to procure not Russia, and the American Westinghouse organization. It was noted that the American Fuel in many ways inferior to the Russian, "native" for boilers, which operates in Ukraine. However, in 2012, the Ukrainian Rada made a clash with technical problems on the 2nd and 3rd blocks of the South-Ukrainian NPP. The difficulties were related to the "variations" of nuclear fuel FA-W, manufactured by Westinghouse. Because of this we had to unload all fuel assemblies and replace them with fuel produced in Russia.
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