The energy units planned for completion at the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant will operate using American fuel, according to Energoatom.

Units No. 3 and No. 4 of the Khmelnytskyi NPP, which are planned for completion, will operate on fuel from the American company Westinghouse, or fuel produced in Ukraine using Westinghouse technology, just like all other operational nuclear units.

This was reported by the Energoatom press service.

It is noted that this provision is outlined in government bill No. 11146, which proposes to allow construction work at the Khmelnytskyi NPP. The company added that Ukraine has definitively abandoned the purchase of Russian nuclear fuel. Since 2022, 100% of all purchases have been made from the American company Westinghouse.

Previously, nuclear energy expert Olha Kosharnaya wrote that for the reactors that Energoatom plans to buy from Bulgaria, the fuel is produced solely by the Russian company TVEL. According to her, due to the technical characteristics of the fuel assembly of such a reactor unit, Westinghouse must develop new fuel.

Background. Earlier, Mind reported that the parliamentary Energy Committee supported amendments to bill No. 11392 regarding the purchase of reactors for the Khmelnytskyi NPP from Bulgaria. The Bulgarians had purchased them from Russia.