24 Jun 2014 13:48

Ukraine set to revive nuke fuel production projects

KYIV. June 24 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry intends to put its projects to produce nuclear fuel in Ukraine back on track, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Vadim Ulida has said.

"Today we are reviving the projects to manufacture nuclear fuel in Ukraine, bearing in mind the fact that we have our own raw materials and our own development procedures," he said at an Adam Smith Conferences event in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Ukraine is currently working to diversify its acquisitions of nuclear fuel, he said.

Ukraine buys nuclear fuel from Russia's company TVEL and the U.S. firm Westinghouse.