UKRAINE STORES NUCLEAR FUEL AND PONDERS NEXT
GENERATION TECHNOLOGY . . .
since the country’s nuclear power future typifies a global sector
full of decisions on policy, technology and the security of ura-
nium based fuel feeds.
Ukratomprom and the national
nuclear operator Enerhoatom report
that the state’s eastern ore enrichment
plant, VostGOK, will no longer export
uranium. All mined uranium will go to a
state reserve of nuclear materials, which
is being constructed. A period of two or
three years are needed to create a reserve
of nuclear fuel and nuclear materials to
provide a one year’s supply of power feed
reserve, reports Industrial Info Resources.
The reserve will be made up of ura-
nium and fresh nuclear fuel supplied
by TVEL (Moscow, Russia). Andriy
Derkach, president of Enerhoatom, said
experts believe the price of uranium will
increase to $500/kg ($225/lb) in 2009
– the motivation for giving priority to
forming a national reserve. This will be
used when it becomes “extremely” profit-
able to make nuclear fuel from it specifi-
cally for Ukraine’s nuclear power plants
or as a reserve to cover the cost of nuclear
fuel that will need to be purchased.
Sitting on the border of Western
and Russian spheres of influence,
Ukraine is carefully deciding on the
technology to be used in future nuclear
plants. Government-level talks with
Canada consider the possibility of build-
ing CANDU pressurized heavy water
reactor based power plants, but Derkach
questions the future use of Canadian
reactors in the future and quotes South
Korean and European switches to PWR
(pressurized water) reactors. He said that
experimenting with types of nuclear
reactors “is a very expensive and unnec-
essary pastime.”
Pressing his case, Derkach said that
Enerhoatom is considering the use of
modernized Russian VVER (pressur-
ized light water) reactors when build-
ing the third and fourth units at the
Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant,
and the use of PWR reactors made by
Westinghouse or Areva, or South Korea’s APR 1400 reactor at
the South Ukraine plant. He explained that a strategic plan for
developing Ukraine’s nuclear energy complex through 2030
was forwarded to the country’s foreign minister at the begin-
ning of July.
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