UNIAN: China initiates new tripartite talks with Russia over construction of nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine

By UNIAN.

Published July 11, 2018 at 11:02 am

A huge map of the Ukraine in the colours of the national flag, is seen in front of the Yuzhnoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant in the town Yuzhnoukrainsk, Mykolaiv region, 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of Kiev, on November 25, 2015. The energy complex is operated by the state-owned Energoatom nuclear power provider, who have signed a deal to purchase supplies of nuclear fuel from the US-based Westinghouse in order to ease its energy dependence on Russia.

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Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Ministry explains that a resumption of tripartite talks with Russia on the construction of a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine was initiated by China, which is seen as a major investor that is expected to buy the Russian stake in the project.

“In June 2018, the top management of China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation sent an invitation to hold trilateral talks on the Chinese side’s engagement in the implementation of a project for the construction of a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Ukraine,” the ministry said on its website on July 10.