Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said that safety must be improved at Ukrainian nuclear power plants in light of the recent natural disaster in Japan, according to Official website of Yulia Tymoshenko.
”Following the events in Japan, all countries with nuclear power plants are reviewing their safety policies at these plants,” Tymoshenko said today during an interview on 5 Kanal.
According to her, nuclear safety was discussed during the summits of the leaders of the European Union and European People’s Party. ”At the summit of leaders of European countries, as well as the summit of the European People’s Party which I attended, they discussed creating a special EU working group that will deal with regulations and procedures to increase safety at nuclear power plants,” she said.
Tymoshenko also suggested to European leaders that they include Ukraine in this working group. ”50% of our electricity comes from nuclear power plants and Ukraine should be an integral part of these new processes, rules and regulations that will be developed so that our nuclear power plants follow them too. I think this is important and the leaders of Europe reacted favorably to this,” she said.
