Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has ordered the creation of a state concern tasked with handling nuclear materials to replace the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone.
“The State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone should be liquidated and replaced with the state concern for handling nuclear materials,” Yatsenyuk said at the construction site of the Shelter Facility for the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant on July 9.
He said this concern must include every company which works with nuclear materials.
The prime minister also said that it was necessary to conduct a new assessment of the radiation levels in the exclusion zone and to consider the possibility of a more rational use of the territory.
Yatseniuk noted that foreign investors had already expressed interest in the construction of energy generating facilities in the exclusion zone, in particular solar power plants.
The prime minister instructed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov to settle the issue of exports of timber and scrap metal from the exclusion zone, adding that all the economic activities in the zone which are not dangerous should be legalized.
