Ukraine buys over $208 mln worth of nuclear fuel in Q1

15:18, 20.08.2015 1 min read

Ukraine bought fresh nuclear fuel worth $208.119 million in January-June 2015, the Ukrainian state statistics service reports.

Ukraine bought only Russian-made nuclear fuel for its nuclear power plants in the first half of 2015.

In 2014, Ukraine bought nuclear fuel worth in total $628.18 million, including $588.83 million worth of nuclear fuel from Russia and $39.35 million from Sweden.

Energoatom, the Ukrainian state enterprise operating the four nuclear power plants, purchases nuclear fuel under contracts with the Russian company TVEL and Sweden's Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB.

Energoatom operates 15 nuclear power units equipped with water-cooled reactors with an aggregate installed output of 13.835 GWt.