The manufacturing and assembly of the nuclear fuel will be performed by the Westinghouse fuel fabrication facility in Vasteras, Sweden, where parts of the production lines are solely dedicated to VVER-1000 fuel.
Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk has announced that his ministry and National Nuclear Energy Company Energoatom have extended the timeframe for planning repair campaigns at nuclear reactors from one year to four years.
South Korea says a magnitude 3.0 earthquake was detected in North Korea on September 23, near the area where Pyongyang recently conducted a nuclear test, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
A large earth tremor has been detected in North Korea, raising speculation that the country has carried out its sixth nuclear test, according to the BBC.
The State Property Fund of Ukraine on August 30 sold a state-owned 33.3% stake in charter capital of PrJSC Joint Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian enterprise for the production of nuclear fuel, according to an online broadcast of the auction.
Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has revised upwards its forecast for nuclear power generation in August 2017 by 1.1% compared to the previously approved monthly plan, to 5.676 billion kWh, according to the annual electricity balance forecast.
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.
State-run enterprise Energoatom, the operator of Ukrainian-based nuclear power plants, increased its revenue from electricity sales by 25% in January-June 2017 (H1), to UAH 24.543 billion, or US$945 million, according to the company's report.