The launch of a full-fledged nuclear fuel cycle without the participation of the Russian Federation is at the discussion stage at the moment. This was stated by Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman, Censor.NET reports citing Interfax-Ukraine. “As for the statement by the Minister [of Ecology and Natural Resources Ostap Semerak – ed.], it is just a…
Ukraine is interested in deepening and expanding bilateral cooperation with the United States in the energy sector, in particular, intends to increase the supply of nuclear fuel produced by U.S. Westinghouse to 30% of the demand, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk has said at a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine…
Ukraine is prepared for trilateral gas talks with Russia with the European Commission’s involvement, Director of the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s Planning and European Integration Department Mykhailo Bno-Airiian said on Facebook. Bno-Airiian said Ihor Nasalyk, the new energy and coal minister, had written to the EC about this on Monday. “In his letter…
The Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan says 139,000 tons of oil products have been delivered to the country over the first three months of this year, which was nearly 15 percent fewer than in the same period last year. In January-March 2015, Tajikistan reportedly imported 163,000 tons of oil products. Russia provides…
The volume of oil produced from Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil and gas fields’ block in Azerbaijan from November 1997 to Apr.1, 2016, stood at 393 million tons, and 218 million tons of this volume accounted for the country’s profit oil, Khoshbakht Yusifzade, first vice-president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), said. He made the remarks…
The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) fully meets the interests of Turkey, and its importance lies in the fact that it is controlled by Baku and Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Chief Adviser Yigit Bulut said Apr. 25 in an interview with the TV channel TRT Haber. “TANAP will turn Turkey into an energy…
Nuclear fuel loading into the core of WWER-12000 reactor has started at Novovoronezh NPP. It is carried out in the framework of the first criticality program that is now running at the innovative Unit 6 (Novovoronezh Phase II, Unit 1). The plant personnel have started working as prescribed by the reactor operating license granted by…
The startup of the 6th unit of Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant based on the WWER-1200 project means that Russia has outrun its rivals in nuclear power technologies, says Chief Editor of AtomInfo.ru Alexander Uvarov. RIA Novosti quotes Uvarov as saying that this is the world’s first unit operating a 3+ reactor. Neither Westinghouse nor Areva…