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.
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.
Ukraine expects to consolidate spent fuel from its nuclear reactors two years from now, Holtec International announced last week, according to Exchange Monitor.
President of Energoatom, Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator, Yury Nedashkovsky has confirmed during his 10-day visit to the U.S. the progress in Holtec International's preparations to build a Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) at the site of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, according to World Nuclear News.