Westinghouse Electric Company and Ukraine’s national nuclear power company Energoatom have signed an agreement to jointly pursue the production of nuclear fuel elements for Russia-supplied VVER reactors in Ukraine.
Westinghouse said in a statement that the agreement, signed at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, Italy, deepens the partnership between both companies around security of fuel supply for Ukraine’s nuclear fleet using Westinghouse VVER fuel.
The agreement confirms plans to establish an assembly line for VVER-1000 fuel elements at the facilities of Energoatom’s affiliate AtomEnergoMash. It is expected that the final agreement will be signed in the near future.
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