Ukraine mulls quitting joint nuclear fuel production venture with Russia, Kazakhstan

The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) has announced the auction, putting up on sale state-owned shares (33.3%) in the share capital of the private joint-stock company "Joint Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian enterprise for the production of nuclear fuel"(JV "UkrTVS"), the SPF press service reports.

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The starting price of shares is set at UAH 921,000, the report says.

The bidding is scheduled for August 30, 2017, while applications for participation are accepted until August 22.

Read alsoEnergoatom: Ukraine-EU Energy Bridge PPP agreement may be signed by year-endUNIAN memo. Joint Venture UkrTVS was founded in 2001 as part of the development of cooperation ties between enterprises of the nuclear fuel cycle of the CIS states. In May 2003, the Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian intergovernmental agreement on assistance in developing the operations of UkrTVS was signed off. The founders of the joint venture in equal shares are: TVEL (Russia), National Atomic Company Kazatomprom (Kazakhstan), and the State Property Fund of Ukraine. The company co-produces competitive nuclear fuel for VVER-1000 nuclear power reactors in Ukraine.

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