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Publish date: September 29, 2003
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The representatives of the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry examined the questions concerning the completion of reactor no.4 at the Khmelnitsk NPP and reactor no.4 at the Rivno NPP. Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Vitaly Gayduk, Ukrainian parliamentarians, leaders of Energoatom company and nuclear plants, local city administration leaders, construction companies took part in the meeting on August 23, 2003. It was stated at the meeting that thanks to the good financing the reactors could be completed in time. Gayduk urged to establish the main office on reactors completion to coordinate the work and finish construction as soon as possible.
Following Kazakhstan’s country-wide vote in favor of building a nuclear power plant earlier this month, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun a courtship of officialdom in Astana, the country’s capital, in apparent hopes of landing a contract to construct it.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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