“On January 16, the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Energy and Housing supported amendments to draft law No. 11392 regarding the authorization of JSC NAEK Energoatom to purchase reactors for the construction of power units No. 3 and No. 4 at the Khmelnytskyi NPP in Bulgaria.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
On January 16, the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Energy and Housing supported the amendments to draft law No. 11392 regarding the authorization of NAEK Energoatom JSC to purchase reactors for the construction of power units No. 3 and No. 4 at the Khmelnytskyi NPP in Bulgaria. The amount in question is approximately EUR 600 million. About it reports Expro and LIGA.net writes. The committee proposes to cancel the text of the draft law No. 11392, which provided for amendments to the laws on the electricity market, and to replace it with a completely different text before the second reading the first reading, the draft law becomes without text and without amendments. And there is amendment 268. The essence of this amendment is that there is a question of negotiations with the Bulgarian side, where they said that a decision must be made by March 12, because the permit is valid until then.” – it was discussed at the meeting. Advertising: That is, Ukraine has less than two months to decide on the purchase of reactors from Bulgaria.In 2006, Rosatom won an international tender for the construction of two VVER-1000 power units at the Belene NPP in Bulgaria, but the project was stopped three years later. In 2012, Bulgaria completely abandoned the construction of the plant and is now ready to sell reactors to Ukraine. We will remind: Advertisement: Power units No. 3 and No. 4 at the Khmelnytskyi NPP should be completed, but for security reasons, this should be done after the end of the war. To complete the construction of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant, it is planned to attract loan funds, as well as own funds of Energoatom NAEC. The Verkhovna Rada withdrew from consideration the draft law on the construction of power units of the Khmelnytsky NPP. The decision on the construction of new nuclear power generation facilities in Ukraine should be made exclusively by its authorities, the European Union has not expressed any official position on this issue.