Construction is nearing a completion of a nuclear reactor in the north-western Belarusian town of Ostrovets on the doorstep of the EU despite fears in neighboring Lithuania, with its border running only around 20 km from the construction site, according to The National.
Ukraine's Energoatom and Japan's Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the modernization of the turbine island equipment of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, according to World Nuclear News.
National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom continues to finance measures to boost safety at its nuclear power plants (NPPs) despite wholesale electricity market operator, state-owned enterprise Energorynok's debts worth UAH 12.6 billion ($474 million) for electricity it has bought from the company, according to the company's first vice-president and technical director, Oleksandr Shavlakov.
President of Ukraine's national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky says Ukraine may sign a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement in 2017 for the implementation of the Ukraine-EU Energy Bridge project, which will allow exports of electricity from Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (KhNPP) unit No. 2 to Poland and Hungary.
The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) has approved the possibility of using nuclear fuel produced by the American-Japanese company Westinghouse at power units 1 and 4 of Zaporizhia NPP, according to the SNRIU press service.