Energoatom Kotin News Today

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has arrived in Kyiv on a visit and has already met with the heads of the Ministry of Energy, State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate and Energoatom.

Energoatom and Holtec International are planning to build a plant in Ukraine for the production of containers, which are currently made in the USA, for storage of used nuclear fuel. The two already have joint plans for the construction of a plant in Ukraine to manufacture equipment for Holtec small modular reactors.

Russia has occupied the massive Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which sits roughly 50 miles from the front lines. Ukraine's other reactors are also operating in a volatile war zone.

At the Headquarters meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on Wednesday, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny was instructed to strengthen the northern direction.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, where three main topics were discussed. Source: Zelenskyy on Telegram Quote: "The Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief has been expanded today.

A presidential decree signed in Moscow has designated the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine "federal property." But Ukrainian operators Energoatom called the move "worthless," as the IAEA head visited Kyiv.

A presidential decree signed in Moscow has designated the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine "federal property." But Ukrainian operators Energoatom called the move "worthless," as the IAEA head visited Kyiv.

Earlier, Ukraine informed IAEA that Russian military forces took over the country's largest nuclear power plant, with six reactors, on March 4.

Ukraine is set to host its first Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor at state-owned Energoatom’s 2-GW Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in the western part

Kyiv, Ukraine – The radioactive cloud that briefly hovered over most of Europe after the April 26, 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station had, after all, a silver lining, Petro Kotin says. Thirty-five years after a botched security test caused the worst nuclear disaster in history, he is at the helm of Energoatom, a state-run consortium in charge of Ukraine’s four nuclear stations and their 15 reactors. “We are unique because no other nation has the practical experience of ...