Ukraine in order to avoid dependence on Russia in matters of nuclear fuel supplies made an agreement with Westinghouse to increase the supplies and construct a nuclear fuel plant in the country in future. This was announced by the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Igor Nasalik during today's briefing.
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Nasalik reminded that Russia provides almost 95% of nuclear fuel supplies for Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
"We agreed on the diversification of supplies for almost a half of Ukrainian nuclear reactors, and on the construction of a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine", - he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
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