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Ukraine wants to produce own nuclear fuel
Publish date: January 17, 2006
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Ukraine wants to produce own nuclear fuel
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on January 13 that his country should produce its own nuclear fuel for its power plants, part of the Westward-leaning leader's effort to reduce its reliance on Russia for energy following a bitter dispute over natural gas prices.
”We must change our uranium policy — our policy on the use of uranium for peaceful purposes,” Yushchenko said on national television. ”We must cooperate with international allies on a serious political and economic level so that we can have a full cycle of processing and production of nuclear fuel.”
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Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s war-torn Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
Press Release – New Regulation on Construction Products adopted: first EU-level rules for green public procurement of building materials
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Reactor building at Ukrainian nuclear plant hit during recent attacks
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.