Ukraine’s national nuclear generating company Energoatom is considering credit from government-backed financial institutions in the US to build the first Westinghouse AP1000 power unit at the site of Khmelnitski nuclear power station in the west of the country, Energoatom head Petro Kotin has said.

“We expect one of the sources of financing for construction of a power unit based on Westinghouse AP1000 technology will be a loan from American financial organisations,” Mr Kotin said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

Mr Kotin said Energoatom has begun discussing the project with the US Export-Import Bank (Exim), and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).