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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at its Wednesday meeting approved, with the subsequent finalization, the financial plan for 2018 of the National Atomic Energy Generating Company Energoatom, which provides for the cost of safety measures at NPP power units at UAH 3.5 billion.
"The new financial plan envisages UAH 1 billion more in taxes than in 2017, and that’s despite the fact that we invest more than UAH 3.5 billion in the safety of power units’ operations and finance completely at Energoatom’s cost the construction of a centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel," Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk said, commenting on the company's financial plan.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in early November, Energoatom started construction of the Centralized Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel in the Chornobyl exclusion zone. The storage will house spent fuel from three Ukrainian nuclear power plants (Rivne, Khmelnytsky and Yuzhnoukrainsk) with the total capacity at 16,529 spent fuel assemblies for VVER-440 and VVER-1000 reactors.
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UNIAN memo. The state-owned NNEGC Energoatom is Ukraine’s largest producer of electricity with a share of over 50% of the country’s total electricity generation.
Energoatom is entrusted with the functions of a safety operator for all of the country’s nuclear power plants.