Ukraine will end its dependence on nuclear fuel in Russia

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Next year, Ukraine will for the first time acquire more nuclear fuel from the American company Westinghouse than from Russian TVEL. About this on Thursday, December 21, said Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Igor Nasalik, reports Tass.

Now 60 percent [of the fuel] is supplied by the Russians, 40 percent - by the Westinghouse. Next year, we will be 55 45 percent in favor of the American supplier.
- he said.



Ukraine will end its dependence on nuclear fuel in Russia


In September, 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the bill that terminates the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the creation of two nuclear power units in the Khmelnytsky region.

In 2014, the Ukrainian company Energoatom and the American Westinghouse Electric Company signed an agreement to increase the supply of nuclear fuel from the United States for nuclear power plants in Ukraine to 2020. According to Energoatom, in 2016, five batches of nuclear fuel produced by Westinghouse were supplied to Ukrainian NPPs. Now this fuel is used at three power units - the second and third South-Ukrainian NPP and the fifth Zaporizhzhya NPP.

The main supplier of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants in Ukraine remains Russian TVEL - an industrial holding company that is part of the state corporation Rosatom. For some nuclear power plants, Kiev acquires products of the American Westinghouse Electric. In March of this year, the company declared bankruptcy, but the Americans claimed that this would not affect supplies to Ukraine. reports "Lenta.ru"
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  1. +13
    21 December 2017 16: 11
    At this pace, Ukraine will end not only its dependence on fuel from Russia, but also all nuclear energy!
    1. +17
      21 December 2017 16: 18
      Next year, Ukraine for the first time will acquire more nuclear fuel from the American company Westinghouse than from the Russian TVEL.

      This is alarming ... THESE NPPs are designed specifically for Russian fuel rods and our service ... In which case, responsibility will be removed from us, but if the United States explodes, they will only be glad to giggle in their hand .. And Russia will have to be raked. Ah Ukraine, with nuclear power plants jokes are bad ..
    2. +35
      21 December 2017 16: 24
      Quote: Ragnar lodbrok
      At this pace, Ukraine will end not only its dependence on fuel from Russia, but also all nuclear energy!

      It is only alarming that this nuclear viper is near us. request Although if Pennsylvaniaville coal turns out to be Donetsk, and gas from Slovakia is Russian, then I won’t be surprised that TVELs will be Russian, they just go through decommunization in Westinghouse. IMHO of course.
      1. +12
        21 December 2017 16: 41
        I won’t be surprised that TVELs will be Russian, they just go through decommunization in Westinghouse. IMHO of course.


        It will be so, only the price for the horses will take into account the profit of the Americans.
        1. +9
          21 December 2017 19: 30
          Quote: Going
          It will be so, only the price for the horses will take into account the profit of the Americans.

          your words - yes to God’s ears, we’re close and we don’t have anywhere to run - a small republic
          1. +5
            21 December 2017 19: 35
            Well, we are also not far, or rather quite close.
            1. +10
              21 December 2017 19: 39
              you have a place to move, and we only need you for permanent residence request
              1. +5
                21 December 2017 19: 45
                Let's not talk about the bad, I think the specialists work and will not allow it.
                1. +8
                  21 December 2017 19: 54
                  Quote: Going
                  I think specialists work and

                  if they worked, then this would not have happened
      2. +23
        21 December 2017 16: 47
        feel Vee laugh, BUT - in super duper progressive and crappy America there is no uranium enrichment, from the word Absolutely belay . The same “Westinghouse” - TVEL stamps for both Ukria and America itself from uranium purchased from “Techsnabexport” OJSC tongue .
        So banderlog once again "achieved independence from deliveries from Russia." laughing laughing
        Salo - from Poland, Russian gas - from the EU and tankers from the USA, Donbass coal - from Poland, Russian uranium - from America. Lord, well, that these sick people will be judged again. belay request
        1. +8
          21 December 2017 16: 51
          Let them jump on and soon they will begin to import black soil. lol
          1. +2
            21 December 2017 17: 30
            And then they will pay off by providing services of an intimate nature, because there is nothing more to take from them.
            1. +4
              21 December 2017 19: 36
              No, this is a draft job.
        2. +2
          21 December 2017 18: 03
          Yes, let it be strange! For uranium-235 enrichment, who will overtake Russia in the next ..... twenty years? And everything else - "yellow cake" (nitrous oxide-uranium), conversion (obtaining uranium hexafluoride) - now costs a little. And where is the Ukrainians and ovr (unit of separation work)? That's right - in .... ne.
        3. ZVO
          +1
          21 December 2017 20: 12
          Quote: Mih1974
          feel Vee laugh, BUT - in super duper progressive and crappy America there is no uranium enrichment, from the word Absolutely belay . The same “Westinghouse” - TVEL stamps for both Ukria and America itself from uranium purchased from “Techsnabexport” OJSC tongue .


          Well then you lie ...
          Gas diffusion - several plants are operating.
          Gas centrifuge - the plant is also working.
          Laser enrichment - they take care that jihads do not get it. for if it comes out. it will be possible to enrich uranium in every kitchen ...
          1. +3
            22 December 2017 00: 17
            Quote: ZVO
            Gas diffusion - several plants are operating.

            Uranium enrichment in the USA was carried out by a less efficient, very energy-intensive method of gas diffusion, and the only commercial gas centrifuge plant in the USA was built by a Urenco consortium (Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands) using European centrifuges.
            Quote: ZVO
            The same “Westinghouse” - TVEL stamps for both Ukria and America itself from uranium purchased from “Techsnabexport” OJSC

            Amendment-
            Exelon, the largest owner of nuclear power plants in the US, will extend the contract with Techsnabexport, a Russian uranium exporter, after the agreement expires, the head of the American company Christopher Crane told Sputnik.
            Different things actually. The purchase of products for their nuclear power plants is cheaper by one company. And the export of assemblies.
            as for Ukraine then
            The French AREVA won the tender for the supply of enriched uranium product for Energoatom, which will be used for the production of Westinghouse fuel assemblies, Capital reports citing Interfax-Ukraine. This was reported to reporters by the president of the company, Yuri Nedashkovsky.
            According to him, the bulk of the supply of enriched uranium product to the Westinghouse plant in Sweden will be in 2016 and tablets will be baked and fuel assemblies made at the Westeros plant. “AREVA will buy uranium on the market or use its own, this is already its task,” said Nedashkovsky.
            He said that AREVA offered not only a low price for enrichment services, but also the possibility of choosing payment in dollars or euros, as well as flexible options in terms of volume. “The competition took place in several stages, held negotiations with everyone and chose the lowest price,” he said.
            In April 2014, Energoatom and Westinghouse agreed to extend until 2020 the current contract for the supply of nuclear fuel to Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which is produced at production facilities in the city of Swedish Westeros.
            And if you delve into the topic.
            This plant, which opened in 1966, is the only production of fuel elements for VVER-type reactors designed in the former USSR outside the Russian Federation. It is such reactors that operate at Ukrainian nuclear power plants. The Westeros plant produces about 600 tons of uranium fuel for light water reactors annually.
            In Europe alone (excluding France, which has Areva, Russia, which has TVEL, and Germany, which closes its nuclear power plants), 65 power units operate that use the fuel produced at the Westeros plant. Of these, 13 BWR reactors (in Spain, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden), 28 PWR reactors (in Belgium, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden) and 24 WWER reactors (in Armenia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Finland and Ukraine). The last number includes all 15 Ukrainian power units.
            And one of the partners and suppliers of the plant is TVEL (RF)
        4. 0
          21 December 2017 21: 46
          I would like to look at real proofs,
      3. +5
        21 December 2017 17: 32
        God grant that it be so. Nobody needs a second Chernobyl.
      4. +6
        21 December 2017 23: 01
        Quote: 79807420129
        It is only alarming that this nuclear viper is near us.

        It is curious, and who and where will utilize spent American fuel, more precisely those 45%?
    3. 0
      21 December 2017 16: 25
      From one addiction to another MORE EXPENSIVE addiction. From gerycha to coke)
    4. +1
      21 December 2017 16: 37
      The main thing is not to explode. Do you have enough minds
      1. 0
        21 December 2017 18: 06
        This is the whole thing! Chernobyl was already arranged and all of us pros pros ... it! Ukrainians in one word !!!!
    5. +5
      21 December 2017 16: 42
      At this pace, Ukraine will commit suicide. belay
      1. +6
        21 December 2017 19: 33
        Quote: siberalt
        At this pace, Ukraine will commit suicide. belay

        Faster hi
        1. +4
          21 December 2017 19: 37
          It may be so, but a terrible end is better than horror without an end and it is urgent to decide.
          1. +7
            21 December 2017 19: 40
            here I am about the same thing - the doctor said to the morgue, then to the morgue
    6. +1
      21 December 2017 16: 54
      They were planning to arrange another Chernobyl.
    7. +3
      21 December 2017 17: 51
      There is a fear here - as if Ukraine at the same time did not end the ecology of the whole region. Including the territory of the EU .... Even just shutting down the reactor is not an easy task.
    8. +1
      21 December 2017 18: 27
      With brains, as well as with sovereignty, they ended in three years !!!
    9. 0
      21 December 2017 22: 00
      Quote: Ragnar lodbrok
      At this pace, Ukraine will end not only its dependence on fuel from Russia, but also all nuclear energy!
      Moreover, if you notice, the deadline has already been designated - 2020.
      In 2014, the Ukrainian company Energoatom and the American Westinghouse Electric Company signed an agreement to increase the supply of nuclear fuel from the United States to nuclear power plants in Ukraine until 2020.
      Perhaps after 2020 there will be no more urcaine.
  2. +4
    21 December 2017 16: 16
    It is better not to have some individuals among the buyers, they create more problems than revenues ...
  3. 0
    21 December 2017 16: 17
    clowning christmas tree sticks wassat
  4. 0
    21 December 2017 16: 19
    Yeah, they’ve done away with gas addiction, now they’ll do away with fuel assemblies, and then with all of Ukraine!
    Somewhere slipped information that Westinghouse bankrupt? No.
    1. +1
      21 December 2017 16: 50
      Quote: Vik66
      Somewhere slipped information that Westinghouse bankrupt?

      Bankruptcy proceedings of the American company Westinghouse were initiated not by one of the third-party lenders, but by the Japanese company Toshiba, the parent company owning 87% of Westinghouse shares. Westinghouse owes Toshiba (if I'm not mistaken) about $ 4 billion dollars. In Japan (and in the USA too), nuclear power plants are not built or reconstructed after the Fukushima accident, so the Japanese do not need an operating company for the construction of nuclear power plants. They are going to sell, but there are no buyers yet and are unlikely to be.
      Ukraine signed a contract, but I think that there were some kickbacks to the managers of UkrAtom.
      1. +4
        21 December 2017 17: 24
        Nuclear power plants after the Fukushima accident are not being built or reconstructed, Amer’s boilers are standing there. Japons turned to them for modernization. The states refused, claiming that the warranty had expired and now spin yourself. Now the yapi invited our specialists from Rosatom to deal with their problem. It is possible that their atomic energy will come to life with our help. But soon. Summer 10 minimum. If the influence of the United States a little fade away.
        1. +1
          21 December 2017 17: 39
          Quote: VERESK
          Nuclear power plants after the Fukushima accident are not being built or reconstructed, Amer’s boilers are standing there. Japons turned to them for modernization. The states refused, claiming that the warranty had expired and now spin yourself. Now the yapi invited our specialists from Rosatom to deal with their problem. It is possible that their atomic energy will come to life with our help. But soon. Summer 10 minimum. If the influence of the United States a little fade away.

          Do you think we are interested in raising Japan’s nuclear energy? I think this is from the realm of fantasy.
          1. +1
            21 December 2017 17: 51
            I think this is from the realm of fantasy. We don’t think they’re thinking. Their delegations will not get out of us. And for the development of our technology, the storage facilities are for themselves and are of interest to VVER. Negotiations are underway on the supply of electric energy to Japan from Russia. If I'm not mistaken, three strands of underwater cable for 15 Gigawatts . I don’t know where we will take them from. Our country has a deficit of about 30 GW, we need it ourselves, but there are no such capacities in the Far East, especially for export.
            1. +1
              21 December 2017 18: 17
              belay Is it de such a wild deficit of leprosy in Russia? Even rumors are that for now (though due to the fall of industry) there is an excess and substantial. There, the “old man” declared that it would be expensive and that he would “turn off the circuit breaker", even if there was little hawala, but Trieboltika also bought something, and in addition to nuclear power plants in Russia, many generations were built and continue to be built. good
  5. +1
    21 December 2017 16: 29
    You can stir up an excellent Ukrainians divorce business, buy rods in RUSSIA and sell them as American know-how.
    1. +6
      21 December 2017 16: 53
      You still laugh, but if everything goes well, then at such a pace, Russian uranium will absorb the WHOLE market. good Only military ambitions and show-offs force us to impose sanctional protective measures against Russian uranium, which is at least 2,5 times cheaper than the nearest competitor bully . If it were a "free market" - all competitors would have already "gone to the porch", feel but all sorts of political moments and the "defense of democracy" saves them.
      In general, good Russia needs to focus on this advantage and build more nuclear power plants and develop an energy-intensive industry, so as not to “crush” with cheap fuel raw materials, but with cheap goods whose price the energy prevails. good
      1. +2
        21 December 2017 17: 29
        then at such a pace Russian uranium will absorb the entire market. It doesn’t absorb. Kazakhstan produces much more uranium than we do. Even with mines in Africa and Canada, we yield to them. This year, the Kazakhs reduced production by 12% to regulate market prices. We are just beginning to develop two large deposits in Transbaikalia. With our mine in Australia, it’s still incomprehensible. Local authorities covered up production.
        1. +7
          21 December 2017 17: 40
          am Do you read me carefully or are you a "writer"? Russia is a world leader in the EFFICIENCY of enrichment of uranium, plutonium, and reverse (separation) technologies. good It's like with oil, we still buy many types of fuel from abroad, because we ourselves DO NOT know how to process our own oil.
          Everything is "bad with uranium, only a few can" process "it (the US, by the way," forgotten how " tongue ), but commercially beneficial, there are generally only three: Russia, the EU (there is a consortium of three European countries) and China. Mustache, no one else is a competitor to us. And if other countries, the same Westinghouse, from our uranium (enriched with us) know how to “flatten” pills for nuclear power plants, then Russia does not have a rival for enrichment for a long time (you’re not selling iPhones at a price)
          1. +3
            21 December 2017 18: 03
            Russia is a world leader in the EFFICIENCY of enrichment of uranium, plutonium, and reverse (separation) technologies. This is so. But I did not notice this in your comment. And why enrich plutonium? This is a derivative of blown uranium. and reverse (uncoupling) technologies. It is still in its infancy. After a couple of years there will be non-waste production. There is a practical implementation of already proven technologies. know how to “flatten” tablets for nuclear power plants, Only Areva can do it. The French. Something for thermal reactors. We bring to mind the technology for "fast" reactors like BN. The first BN-800s will go in February. The difference between thermal boilers and our "fast" ones is quite significant .In essence, completely different physical principles.
            1. +5
              21 December 2017 18: 10
              I'm completely confused with you. It seems that you are refuting me, but in fact - give moments of Russia's even greater superiority over competitors. Of course, I can give here five six links to articles from which I learned all this and that everyone would personally enlighten themselves, but this is a long time and not everyone has time.
              Let’s just summarize - Russia is a world leader in nuclear energy (technological) and, according to certain points (BN), is generally “unparalleled in the World”. good And "the country of the deposit of democracy" - from year to year roll lower and lower in the manufacturability of the atomic sphere. tongue
              1. +6
                21 December 2017 18: 17
                And "the country of the deposit of democracy" - from year to year roll lower and lower in the manufacturability of the atomic sphere. tongue I absolutely agree with this! I’m about 20 years old like in Rosatom. I have 36 contracts abroad, I have 11. I have it to replace decommissioned ones. We only compete with Areva, although we are in close contact with them. China is already on its heels using our technology .Westinghouse-how much more he will breathe, I don’t know. The same is with them.
                1. +3
                  21 December 2017 18: 26
                  Here you are all the "competition" and trampled on my thesis that with a real free market, Russia would long ago have monopolized the processing of uranium (well, in general), or maybe the construction of a nuclear power plant. Unlike the same mattresses, RosAtom offers a "full cycle", from "ore to disposal." good And only politics does not allow us to roll our competitors into dust ((.
                  Again, unlike the same mattresses, we take to ourselves the “mining” (spent all fuel). That is, the same Ukria will be forced to build a repository, and then to hell how many soars with maintaining it in state. And in our country, mining is not "waste", but raw materials. good Moreover, if we have almost ready technology for burning debris such as Plutonium into lipestrism in the reactors, then the same mattresses (debi. Word) will either bury it or even use it foolishly. And so already the desert in Iraq "glows" am Well think it was necessary to make shells and armor from uranium belay negative
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                    1. +1
                      21 December 2017 18: 54
                      belay And where did they go, I suppose they sold it to the Chinese in the quiet? laughing (we Peter warm feel )
                      PySy; I saw that you have not yet built a building for us, well, of course, not the Cold War, but you still have to hurry, "the competitors are on the alert." And as you noticed earlier - the Konadians also thought that the “tails” are the garbage that the devil knows where to put it, how the Clintons found us sending them for nothing at once - they immediately realized (and now they understand) where to use it and how they "gold at the price of manure" sell. lol
        2. +3
          21 December 2017 17: 46
          Uranium mining is an action that does not have special significance. There are a lot of uranium ores in the world, some have less, others have more, some have better, others have worse. Even in Ukraine in Yellow Waters, a rather large uranium deposit is being developed. All salt is in a highly technological enrichment cycle, where high science and not individual enterprises, but entire industries are involved. A complete industrial cycle of uranium enrichment, in the world have single countries. And to produce uranium ore, can and blacks in Africa.
          1. +3
            21 December 2017 17: 51
            Vee laugh, but - often just blacks in Africa and get it laughing
            1. +1
              21 December 2017 18: 12
              Bravo! But not with shovels. We still envy this. Good, it's warm there.
              1. +5
                21 December 2017 18: 41
                laughing laughing "Tram" mining trucks it's Five good laughing
                Although I would not envy the use of female labor (cheaper) in uranium mines negative . No matter how much they write “safe”, women give birth to children, and so mankind seeks to degenerate.
                But by the way, you simply have to agree - it's still "shovels" compared to

                And even if there’s no “chrome shine” or proboscopes for beauty, but the technological ones are the highest.
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            2. 0
              21 December 2017 18: 52
              Quote: Mih1974
              Vee laugh, but - often just blacks in Africa and get it

              I just did not laugh, but outlined a long-known fact.
      2. +1
        21 December 2017 17: 47
        Quote: Mih1974

        In general, good Russia needs to focus on this advantage and build more nuclear power plants and develop an energy-intensive industry, so as not to “crush” with cheap fuel raw materials, but with cheap goods whose price the energy prevails. good

        Actually, real competitive technologies are just not energy-intensive. Energy-intensive - metallurgy, the production (not processing!) Of aluminum, cripples its own nature and its added value is minuscule. Highly profitable - small electronics, software, release of smart devices. The consumption of semiconductor material for the production and production of billions is a couple of tons of highly refined silicon. in year. Do you think that forges at every intersection will pull Russia forward along the path of progress? China abandoned blast furnaces in every garden. You pull there.
        This is from ignorance.
        1. +2
          21 December 2017 18: 01
          Okay, let's replace “energy intensive” with “energy intensive” in my post. lol I do not want to disappoint you, but replacing blast furnaces with more modern ones is a "lack of energy" in China, and poor people are choking on "wealth". Are you aware that China has adopted a long-term program for the construction of more than 200 TWO reactors? belay it is TWO times more than in the USA, it is they who do the same from "stupidity" or understand that - Energy is Production !! good
          And in Russia, I repeat - the cost of enriching uranium per unit of energy generated (EPP like feel ) 2.5 times lower than that of the nearest competitor. So that’s right - you need to use this. If, because of this, it will be cheaper to smel (primary) aluminum, then you don’t need (as you blame me) to cry and poison your nature, but you need to "finish up" the factory nearby and make it even cheaper - foil, delalka or wherever still apply luminescence. "The smart, who felt the wind of change is not standing on the wall, he is building - The Windmill" good
      3. +7
        21 December 2017 17: 54
        EMNIP, it all started with a "treacherous" and "predatory" treaty HEU-LEU. At first glance, this was another sale for a pittance of Soviet wealth, typical of the 90s. And not just riches, but processed highly enriched (weapons) uranium. Patriots cursed the signatories by the Jews and sellers of the motherland.
        20 years passed - and suddenly it turned out that the Treaty was with a double bottom. Cheap Russian uranium squeezed American enrichment from the market and simultaneously closed all plans for the modernization of American uranium enrichment facilities (no sales, no profit - nothing to re-equip production). In fact, Russia dealt a nuclear attack on the US enrichment industry, knocking one of the most important stages out of the full production cycle of peaceful and military atoms.
        1. +4
          21 December 2017 18: 04
          Well, if you read the Old, then - Russia in the person of Rosatom "sat quietly like a mouse" and tried to "not frighten off". laughing laughing The fact that Merikasy did with their processing of uranium is read with a collapse of 90 will be with us. But if we had outright thieves or mishandled Cossacks, then THEM were the most patriots, only "very greedy". laughing
          1. +1
            21 December 2017 18: 24
            Quote: Mih1974
            The fact that Merikasy did with their processing of uranium is read with a collapse of 90 will be with us. But if we had outright thieves or mishandled Cossacks, then THEM were the most patriots, only "very greedy".

            I would say that it was an effective management. The same one that closed most of the American manufacturing sector, moving production to China and Southeast Asia.
            1. +3
              21 December 2017 18: 49
              Therefore, I am a stalenist, "only mass executions will save Germany" good With all the snarls and coddles on the ground, Stalin brought the country "from plow to space." At the same time, he twice restored the country from RUIN.
              And that the West, and they after our "unconscious fall" in 90 - did not create any world paradise. Quite the contrary, they themselves could spin up a social framework, start waging wars against quite peaceful and “exactly sitting” countries, economic crises shake the World, and now, without the USSR, they put the World on the verge of a third world war belay am
              That is, capitalism - can never achieve "universal happiness", negative it is characteristic of this system - taking to the top of decision-making the most vile and full-time "non-humans", which is fraught (at the current technological level) with the complete destruction of humanity.
      4. 0
        22 December 2017 06: 09
        Quote: Mih1974
        and already cheap goods in the price of which energy is prevailing.

        And what are these products? Aluminum and spoons from it? Or charged batteries? laughing
    2. +4
      21 December 2017 17: 46
      buy rods in RUSSIA and sell them as American know-how.Our assemblies are already being tested at American reactors. Experimental samples. Perhaps Rosatom in the near future will arrange the supply of fuel elements for some of their reactors. Without us, nowhere.
      1. +1
        21 December 2017 19: 11
        And I want to add, like this is exactly our assembly! Prior to that, they were made under their orders according to THEIR technology (patent). good drinks
  6. +2
    21 December 2017 16: 33
    Ukraine will end its dependence on nuclear fuel in Russia

    It is difficult to enjoy independence from the mind, and the new Chernobyl is just around the corner. It’s okay with the “masters,” but we and Belarusians will get it. sad
    1. +5
      21 December 2017 16: 52
      There and Europe to the full rake.
  7. +1
    21 December 2017 16: 38
    It’s already kind of “ending” with dependence on Russian nuclear fuel. "Cum" and from the American? And so they walk around, sexually preoccupied.
  8. +1
    21 December 2017 16: 41
    And I wonder ... Where do they go to spent fuel?
    1. +2
      21 December 2017 16: 50
      It seems that information was passing that a waste repository was being created in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
      1. 0
        21 December 2017 17: 51
        Not only was Russian fuel cheaper, but Russia was also disposing of spent fuel under the agreement. The Ukroidiots, in their servile humiliation before the West, are ready to even bury their used nuclear fuel at home. fool
        1. +3
          21 December 2017 18: 28
          , buried at home. Spent assemblies do not litter. They are "laid back" in the pool, then they are recycled. Our small video. Although not new. And this was the first channel I shot a month ago. We've been treading with us for three days, and here's a stub.
          1. +1
            21 December 2017 19: 09
            So it’s kind of said that “they promise the premiere in December”, maybe they will have mercy and make a big film. good
            1. 0
              22 December 2017 16: 35
              The film, as far as I know, is ready. When they show, I don’t know. They promised by the day Energy. That is, today. I don’t see.
  9. +3
    21 December 2017 16: 50
    The rods come in and do not "swell" - well. Fucking on the floor of Europe - also not bad. You can make a plaque. From all sides overpowered.
  10. +2
    21 December 2017 16: 50
    Well, if you consider that Westinghouse Electric receives enriched uranium for its fuel assemblies ... from Russia, then getting rid of the achressor is not a problem. wassat
    1. 0
      22 December 2017 00: 27
      Quote: Mountain Shooter
      enriched uranium for its fuel assemblies ... from Russia, it’s not completely got rid of the achressor

      maybe in this case, the Swedish plant will not use the raw materials of the TVEL supplier
  11. 0
    21 December 2017 16: 51
    They finish the game, although VVER and a reliable boiler, but with such experiments, are fraught. Often the news pops up about the emergency stop of blocks with Westinghouse assemblies. Westinghouse Electric receives enriched uranium for its fuel assemblies ... from Russia Where does infa come from? Especially about enriched uranium? The HEU-KNOW times are over.
    1. +2
      21 December 2017 17: 16
      Especially about enriched uranium? The HEU-KNOW times are over.

      so uranium up to 5% must also be enriched hi
      1. +2
        21 December 2017 17: 35
        hi Moreover, weapons-grade uranium was sent to the states through HEU-LEU. Currently, we do not supply uranium to other countries. Only as assemblies for Soviet (Russian) design reactors, such as RBMK and VVER. With the obligatory removal of spent assemblies to the MCC. We have everything here for this for a hundred years to come up with. Enrich uranium is SKHK. There are several thousand centrifuges. There is no work. We are still trying to bring MOX fuel to mind, we plan to build a REMIX fuel. Plans -big! But -... (comments on the site of the Mining and Chemical Combine).
    2. +2
      21 December 2017 17: 50
      https://regnum.ru/news/2319073.html Мм тут к сожалению "вестингауз" не упомянут, но зато приведен очень показательный факт - правительство в США САМО belay lol agreed to cancel barrage duties on Russian (enriched in Russia) uranium !!! Think about it, how HOW should it infringe on America’s interests so that they “abolish barrage duties”? laughing In the morning I feel that this is possible only with one option - the United States has no other option. tongue Actually, in the USA, Europeans started enriching a “small candle factory” not so long ago, and perhaps you are right from it, and not from Russian uranium, Westinghouse flatters tablets for Ukraine. But this is not important because then they will simply be forced to buy more uranium from us for American nuclear power plants.
  12. +8
    21 December 2017 16: 51
    Yes, let yourself hang yourself.
    It’s not funny, it’s funny that a handful of moneybags knelt the whole country and scoffs .... And the country, along the way, likes it ....
    1. +2
      21 December 2017 17: 02
      Quote: CAT BAYUN
      . And the country, along the way, like ....


      Since they endure it means they like it.
  13. +1
    21 December 2017 17: 05
    Damn, these yellow-blocking go at such a pace can arrange a second Chernobyl. They are becoming really dangerous for the whole of Europe.
  14. +1
    21 December 2017 17: 19
    Well, we beat them in this market too:
    TVEL JSC successfully continues TVS-SQUARE fuel qualification program
    http://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2017/07/18/77716
  15. 0
    21 December 2017 17: 28
    Quote: captive
    Next year, Ukraine for the first time will acquire more nuclear fuel from the American company Westinghouse than from the Russian TVEL.

    This is alarming ... THESE NPPs are designed specifically for Russian fuel rods and our service ... In which case, responsibility will be removed from us, but if the United States explodes, they will only be glad to giggle in their hand .. And Russia will have to be raked. Ah Ukraine, with nuclear power plants jokes are bad ..

    They will commit suicide for sure! And rake the neighbors!
  16. 0
    21 December 2017 17: 32
    Have you really decided to settle accounts with life?
  17. +2
    21 December 2017 17: 32
    For some reason, European integrators from the EU do not require immediate closure of ukroAES, as was the case with other former socialist countries! Double standards again?
  18. +1
    21 December 2017 17: 50
    the second Chernobyl world will not forgive for sure
  19. 0
    21 December 2017 18: 24
    So the flag in hand. Maybe it will explode where ... although the pan-annuals will not increase their minds - the screen, you know ... More and more sick when the word Ukraine is mentioned !!!
  20. 0
    21 December 2017 18: 25
    They have already done away with their brains.
  21. 0
    21 December 2017 18: 46
    Well, in Russia it will always be possible to buy surplus electricity ... the main thing is not on credit, but on a prepayment ... good luck to continue the experiments on ukroaes, which by the way, by the time it’s not long to live
  22. +2
    21 December 2017 18: 47
    Amen. It is only a pity that the memory of the blood and sweat of our ancestors can once and for all destroy some downs.
  23. 0
    21 December 2017 19: 07
    The best "mitral valve" in the heart of Europe)))
  24. 0
    21 December 2017 19: 14
    What's again? Little trouble with counterfeit fuel rods?
  25. +3
    21 December 2017 20: 07
    Now 60 percent [of the fuel] is supplied by the Russians, 40 percent - by the Westinghouse. Next year, we will be 55 45 percent in favor of the American supplier.

    They’ll play the pan-and-panheads, which will get “fun” cleaner than Chernobyl. And there, after all, only one power unit gasped ... and eliminated the consequences of the whole country. One lead went there in the amount of the annual production of the entire Union. The lead rods had to be driven from Kazakhstan so that it was enough. What if 2,3,4 reactors? We will ukrov only in fairy tales and epics remember.
  26. +2
    21 December 2017 20: 22
    In 2014, the Ukrainian company Energoatom and the American Westinghouse Electric Company signed an agreement to increase the supply of nuclear fuel from the United States to nuclear power plants in Ukraine until 2020.

    In fact, Russia should not regret the loss of the Ukrainian market, this market goes to zero in the next ten, well, maybe fifteen years! The resource of the Soviet-built nuclear power plants has almost gone, the extension requires certain investments, and this option does not roll for modern Ukraine.
    Buying fuel from Westinghouse Electric Company is more likely to justify the remaining nuclear power plant resources, and investments in the construction of new units (even American ones) are not expected. The country has become dependent on the verge of colonial law.
  27. 0
    21 December 2017 20: 55
    “Next year, Ukraine for the first time will purchase more nuclear fuel from the American company Westinghouse than from the Russian TVEL. This was announced on Thursday, December 21 by the Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Igor Nasalik ..- Is it good or bad, Nasalik, about this He didn’t say. Why speak? You know less, sleep more calmly.
  28. 0
    21 December 2017 22: 08
    Ukraine rejoices that it buys nuclear fuel from an American company, and for itself the United States already partially buys nuclear fuel in Russia))) ... And this despite the sanctions, the "Russian threat" and so on. Business is nothing personal. It’s only the Kiev junta that is ready to sacrifice national interests for the sake of the owners over the hill, normal countries are trying to buy fuel cheaper so that there is more money left for the development of the country and the population to buy goods produced in their country ...
  29. 0
    21 December 2017 22: 14
    Quote: Mih1974
    Vee laugh, BUT - in super duper progressive and crappy America there is no uranium enrichment, from the word Absolutely

    You you will laugh very muchbut there is. At least for their nuclear energy they have enough of it. Moreover, a certain amount of EMNIP of 120 tons of American weapons-grade uranium recovered from nuclear weapons under the HEU-LEU program has also been transferred for fuel fabrication

    Quote: fizteh
    For uranium-235 enrichment, who will overtake Russia in the next ..... twenty years?

    Alas. In 2012, Russian uranium enrichment enterprises completed work in the amount of 25 SWU per year. Conscientious Anglo-German-Dutch - 000 million, the French -000 million, the American part of the joint Anglo-German-Dutch company - 12. In total, they completed 800 SWUs per year. As a percentage of our volume - 000%
    Planned for 2020
    Russia - 28, Joint - 663, French - 000, the American segment of the joint - 14. If all this is summed up, they will fulfill an equal volume of 900% of ours. Compare. 000% in 7 and 500% in 000. So alas, they can overtake. I have not considered Japan yet (they have a miniscule), well, China. If China also assume that they have already overtaken in total

    Quote: ZVO
    Well then you lie ...
    Gas diffusion - several plants are operating.
    Gas centrifuge - the plant is also working.
    Laser enrichment - they take care that jihads do not get it. for if it comes out. it will be possible to enrich uranium in every kitchen ...

    good
    And if you look at their plans for energy (more precisely, on uranium) in the future until 2030-2040, even the canned ones are going to be reopened.

    Quote: VERESK
    then at such a pace Russian uranium will absorb the entire market. It doesn’t absorb. Kazakhstan produces much more uranium than we do. Even with mines in Africa and Canada, we yield to them. This year, the Kazakhs reduced production by 12% to regulate market prices. We are just beginning to develop two large deposits in Transbaikalia. With our mine in Australia, it’s still incomprehensible. Local authorities covered up production.

    Moreover, in order to implement the HEU-LEU program, we ourselves had to buy natural uranium from other countries to distribute it.
  30. 0
    21 December 2017 22: 20
    Quote: Mih1974
    Actually in the USA, Europeans enrichment "small candle factory" launched not so long ago

    Nefiga itself is "small." laughing This plant gives only 17,7% of the volume in all of Russia
  31. 0
    22 December 2017 00: 30
    current Kiev power has sold Ukraine to American power clans. Soon the people of Ukraine will lose the land on which they live - there is a bargain: we will give you loans (not to the people of Ukraine but to the gang in power!), And you must pass laws on the sale of land. And land is not the only subject of bargaining. Fuel for nuclear power plants from the same list of betrayals, gas supplies through w ... - if only it would be more profitable for the West, tariffs for the population, ....
  32. 0
    22 December 2017 00: 36
    As far as it is clear that moving away from one supplier of assemblies (at the same time they gave away used assemblies and paid another 200 million for this), TVEL - Ukraine is striving to diversify suppliers.
    American (only in the jurisdiction of the company) assembly will be processed by the French in Sweden.
    And about half of the assemblies will be produced in the Russian Federation and processed there (a total of 1-2 companies) and half will be produced in the EU and processed in Sweden. There are already three companies in the second version.
    It would be interesting to compare price and costs. Not biased by the Russian Federation or Ukraine itself (or partners)
    I remind you that the Swedish plant serves those types of reactors as TVEL. This is about moaning about domestic reactors and assemblies.
    And TVEL itself often works as a supplier to a Swedish factory.
  33. 0
    22 December 2017 05: 53
    "Ukraine will end its dependence on Russian nuclear fuel ..." and not only ... it is very likely that it will eventually commit suicide in a very sophisticated way. What is good for some reactors is not at all suitable for others.
  34. 0
    22 December 2017 06: 36
    In March of this year, the company filed for bankruptcy, but the Americans assured that this would not affect supplies to Ukraine. reports "Lenta.ru"

    Of course it will not affect - it’s necessary to sell off the remains from the warehouses)))
  35. 0
    22 December 2017 07: 27
    We will suffer, but you will get it.
  36. +5
    22 December 2017 08: 02
    Yes, a flag in hand and a pen in ..., you know where. We walked around the market and bought worse and more expensive. Bravo! The geniuses of marketing!

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