looks like nuclear fuel ukraine will be completed sometime in february:
Ukraine will produce nuclear fuel 29.01.2008 10:35 | Nezavisimaya Gazeta In February, the Ukrainian government plans to create a new State Concern "Nuclear Fuel Ukraine." It will bring together almost all the industry sake of obtaining its own nuclear cycle.
In February, the Ukrainian government plans to create a new State Concern "Nuclear Fuel Ukraine." It will bring together almost all the industry sake of obtaining its own nuclear cycle. It is expected that by 2009 Ukraine will come close to the production of fuel for nuclear power plants (NPPs). Open the question of who will partner the Ukrainian concern - Russian or American structure.
Such an association called Ukratomprom was established in Ukraine in late December 2006. It consists of state-owned enterprises on the extraction and processing of uranium and zirconium ores, concentrates on the manufacture of zirconium and zirconium alloys, as well as the Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Technology, design institutes - Kiev and Kharkov Energoprojekt, energomashinostroitelnoe Enterprise "Turboatom. Another participant "Ukratomproma" public company "Energoatom", which brings together all Ukrainian nuclear power plant, was at the same time manage the corporation.
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in the past year have concluded that the closure of the entire nuclear industry in one state company dangerous. Experts from the Presidential Secretariat suspected that "Energoatom", with the elimination of control by the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, aims in the future to hand over control of strategic enterprises third party. Because until now, all Ukrainian nuclear power was tied to cooperation with Russia, the concerns most often associated with that country. As a result, in the middle of last year, President Yushchenko signed a decree, which abolished Ukratomprom.
Activities of the Nuclear Fuel Ukraine also inevitably require the cooperation of Ukraine with foreign partners, industry experts believe. Collaborator of the Centre for Economic and Political iss ledovany Olga Kosharnaya notes that the nuclear industry needed a focal point capable create a single production chain - from raw materials for the manufacture of fuel to the field of waste management. She noted that the country has sufficient scientific and technological base for the independent decisions on many issues, including the construction of a new factory for the production of fuel. This year, as in previous years, the Ukrainian "Energoatom" buys fuel for all the four Ukrainian nuclear power plants with Russian company TVEL "(part of OAO Atomenergoprom"). Contract signed with the company until 2010, although its terms refined annually. Fuel American company Westinghouse in recent years at individual power plants used only experimentally.
Two structures identified in Ukraine are considered as potential partners to build a closed nuclear cycle. If the earlier development of Ukrainian nuclear cooperation with the "Atomenergopromom" there seemed little doubt, the creation of a "Nuclear fuel Ukraine" does not respond to this question. Yulia Tymoshenko government officials assure that the situation is clarified by February, when the documents would be ready for the establishment of a new Ukrainian biggest concern.
Adviser to the Presidential Secretariat on foreign policy Bogdan Sokolowski noticed recently that even left open the question of funding state programs related to "The nuclear fuel Ukraine." Earlier, Vice-Premier of the TAC in the government of Viktor Yanukovych Andrei Klyuev stated that the development of Ukraine's nuclear industry in the next few years will require more than 10 billion U.S. investment. Yulia Tymoshenko Government does not comment the matter. A president in the secretariat only sure of one thing: all businesses related to nuclear power, should remain in public ownership. "The industry can not work without strict control by the State. This strategic direction to the Ukrainian economy, and it will be based new energy security and stability" - said Sokolowski.
Last year, electricity production in Ukraine totalled 195 billion kWh, of which 93 billion kWh were produced in nuclear power plants. There are 15 power plants operated at the Zaporizhia, South Ukraine, Rivne and Khmelnitsky nuclear power plants.
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