Russian Foreign Ministry regrets Kiev’s decision to load experimental American fuel into NPPs
107
Moscow regrets the decision of the Kiev authorities to replace Russian fuel for nuclear power plants with American ones, which are “experimental fuel assemblies”, reports RIA News Statement by the Director of the Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Ulyanov.
As previously reported, “16 June launched the loading of Westinghouse’s TVS-WR nuclear fuel into the reactor core of the fifth power unit of the Zaporizhzhya NPP”. The first batch should consist of 42-x fuel cassettes.
“Kiev took this decision under its responsibility. In fact, he voluntarily turns himself into a testing ground for experimental American fuel assemblies. It remains only to express regret for the fact that the Kiev authorities decided not to be guided by technical and economic considerations, but by political attitudes, which are clearly at odds with the interests of Ukraine and its people ”,
said Ulyanov.
Previously, Rosatom TVEL (the main supplier of fuel for Ukrainian NPPs) stated that loading Westinghouse cassettes on at least one unit would mean intentional “violation of the Russian-Ukrainian nuclear fuel contract”, and if this happens, TVEL management “will consider protection options their legitimate interests. "
FP 2016 / Anatolii Stepanov
Our news channels
Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
"Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) (banned in Russia), ISIS (banned in Russia), "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham" formerly "Jabhat al-Nusra" (banned in Russia) , Taliban (banned in Russia), Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), Anti-Corruption Foundation (banned in Russia), Navalny Headquarters (banned in Russia), Facebook (banned in Russia), Instagram (banned in Russia), Meta (banned in Russia), Misanthropic Division (banned in Russia), Azov (banned in Russia), Muslim Brotherhood (banned in Russia), Aum Shinrikyo (banned in Russia), AUE (banned in Russia), UNA-UNSO (banned in Russia), Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (banned in Russia), Legion “Freedom of Russia” (armed formation, recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and banned), Kirill Budanov (included to the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists)
“Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent,” as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: “Medusa”; "Voice of America"; "Realities"; "Present time"; "Radio Freedom"; Ponomarev Lev; Ponomarev Ilya; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; Mikhail Kasyanov; "Owl"; "Alliance of Doctors"; "RKK" "Levada Center"; "Memorial"; "Voice"; "Person and law"; "Rain"; "Mediazone"; "Deutsche Welle"; QMS "Caucasian Knot"; "Insider"; "New Newspaper"
Information