Ukrainian NPP's To Soon Store Spent Fuel Domestically
22 January 2007
EASTBUSINESS.ORG (UKRAINE) -- Ukrainian Fuel and Enery Minister Yuriy Boyko told reporters in Simferopol late last week that Ukrainian nuclear power plants will be using a new, Ukraine-based storage facility to conserve spent nuclear fuel. Use of this new facility will be restricted to Ukrainian nuclear facilities only. Boyko also said that at present, three of Ukraine's nuclear power plants lack storage facilities and send their waste to Russia. Meanwhile, Russia has been raising the cost of these storage services. If Russia shuts down its spent fuel facilities to Ukraine, the local nuclear plants will be forced to close their doors.
Source: Eastbusiness.org Accessed via Nexus.com 23 January 2007 (Reliability: 6)
Comment: Ukraine currently has 15 operating water-moderated nuclear reactors, which supply approximately 49% of the nation's energy. Ukraine also has plans underway to build an additional 2 reactors which would increase the nation's nuclear energy output of 13,168 MW's by another 1,900 MW's.
-Josh
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