Ukraine in January-August of this year purchased nuclear fuel for a total of $307.03 million, which is 3.2 percent less than for the same period in 2017 ($317.193 million).
According to the State Statistics Service, during this period Ukrainian nuclear power plants bought Russian nuclear fuel for $208.318 million, Swedish nuclear fuel for $98.713 million.
Thus, the share of purchases of nuclear fuel by Ukraine in January-August 2018 from TVEL (Russia) in monetary terms amounted to 67.8 percent, from Westinghouse (Sweden) some 32.2 percent.
As reported, Ukraine in 2017 purchased nuclear fuel for a total of $533.422 million (from Russia for $368.964 million and Sweden for $164.458 million), in 2016 for $548.81 million (from Russia for $386.782 million, from Sweden – $162.28 million), in 2015 – $643.57 million (from Russia for $610.883 million, Sweden – for $32.688 million), in 2014 – for $628.176 million (from Russia for $588.831 million, Sweden – for $39.345 million), in 2013 – for $600.596 million (all from Russia), in 2012 – for $ 600.334 million (from Russia for $555.355 million, Sweden – for $44.979 million).
The operator of all four operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine is state-owned enterprise Energoatom, which acquires nuclear fuel under contracts with TVEL (Russia) and Westinghouse Electric Sweden (Sweden).
