Uranium & Fuel

Ukraine / For First Time, Westinghouse Fuel Is Loaded Into 440-MW Russia-Supplied Nuclear Plant

By David Dalton
11 September 2023

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For First Time, Westinghouse Fuel Is Loaded Into 440-MW Russia-Supplied Nuclear Plant
Ukraine’s energy minister Herman Halushchenko said the fuel loading marked the end of Russia’s monopoly. Courtesy Energoatom.
Westinghouse fuel has been loaded into a Russia-designed reactor unit with a capacity of 440 MW for the first time, in what Ukraine’s state nuclear operator Energoatom called “an historic event” as it shifts away from Moscow as its main supplier.

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