Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry singled out areas of cooperation with China in the atomic-industrial complex
The Ministry of
Energy and Coal Industry of
Ukraine hosted a meeting with representatives
of the energy
sector of the People's Republic
of China, China Atomic Energy
Authority (CAEA).
During a meeting held
by the Minister
of Energy and Coal Industry
Ihor Nasalyk the issues of
cooperation in the nuclear energy
and atomic-industrial complex
were discussed.
The Minister pointed
out that the President of
Ukraine determined deepening of cooperation
with the People's Republic of China as
a strategic priority. Hence, the Ministry
of Energy and Coal Industry
considers cooperation in the field
of development of the atomic-industrial complex as promising
and beneficial both for Ukraine
and China. He also briefed
on the possibilities
of the fuel
and energy complex of Ukraine
concerning investments attraction.
Ihor Nasalyk noted
the Concept of the State
Target Program for the Development
of Enterprises of the Atomic
Industry Complex for the period
up to 2020 envisages the implementation
of the project
for the construction
of a nuclear fuel fabrication plant.
Apart from that,
the cooperation between the SE «National Nuclear Energy
Generating Company «Energoatom» and the
People's Republic of China in
the field of nuclear energy
was touched upon.The possible spheres of cooperation
are the construction
of nuclear power plant units
inUkraine, training and retraining of personnel, operation
and maintenance of atomic power
plants, scientific and technical cooperation
in the field
of peaceful uses of nuclear
energy, etc.
The Chinese side
informed about the possibility of Chinese companies
regarding investments attraction in the energy sector
of Ukraine. In particular, the question was
about the experience of uranium
mining, building atomic power plants
and attracting new Chinese technologies.