Ukrainian MPs confirm the controversial purchase of nuclear reactors

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament allowed the government to take a project that has been used to the government at least 600 million US, a Russian-made nuclear reactor – a drastic criticism of the high price and annual schedule.

The Ukrainian government plans to build two reactors in Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in western Ukraine Grid is crippled with ruthless Russian attacks. Bulgaria did not take from them from them, Russia’s state nuclear nuclear giant, rosatom, but never.

Energy experts and Anti-corruption activists Tell us that the years will be better to strengthen Ukraine’s energy supply, such as the use of the reactors and buying weapons or providing small gas turbines all over the country.

Given the history of corruption in the project, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry and the Energoatom, the State Nuclear Company, the State Nuclear Company, which controls the purchase of the State Nuclear Company, has concerns that they can serve as a frontage for money laundering. In recent months, several highest officials and workers were arrested and charged ignorble bribe.

The purchase of reactors has attracted an important attention to Kiev’s diplomatic and political circles in Kiev, as the war reinstates the energy infrastructure, as soon as the most pressing problems facing the nation of war in the near future. Discharge limited financial resources and fight corruption.

“This test will be tested,” Opposition deputy Inna Sovsun, sitting in the National Committee of the Parliament, said in a telephone interview. He was one of 39 deputies, 261 people voted in favor.

Ms. Sovsun noted that the Ukrainian parliament should still pass the law confirming the installation of reactors before the project. He said that Kiev’s foreign supporters were concerned about how he would be about him, and President Trumman’s election was suspected at a time when he supported Ukraine.

“With many corruption schemes around the Energoatom, the decision can hurt Ukraine as a country trying to fight corruption and nutrition.”

President Volodymyr Zelenski is expected to sign the bill in the near future. On Tuesday supported the projectIt said that winter will prevent dark and low electrical prices. Critics “rejected their pockets or patrons as people who wanted to fill their money from more expensive energy sources.”

Most of the heat and hydropower plants destroyed by Russian attacks or are badly damaged, Ukraine rely on three operations to provide more than half of the country’s electricity.

Russia has refrained from attacking nuclear plants, which will be able to lead to a catastrophic disaster – even though attempting to make the power to pass the power Destruction of substations that connect them to the network. Russia seized the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, six reactors in the war and do not give strength in Grid.

Ukrainian energy minister has argued that Germany’s GaluShenko has the only favorable solution to ensure long-term energy security for the expansion of the country’s nuclear energy. He stressed that the two reactors of Bulgaria are the fastest and most effective choice, instead of building new ones.

Energoatom also has agreement Ukraine’s nuclear power plant returning to the Soviet era, only the reactors built by Soviet technology, originated by the former Soviet Union, such as Bulgaria. However, the nuclear company also plans to build another two reactors in the Khmelnytskyi plant using Western technologies.

More problematic, the critics of the project say that it has been a waste of time in strengthening Kiev’s energy network for years to install the reactors. It argues that funds will be better spent on the repair of substations and thermal power plants damaged by hard or conventional capacity.

It is not clear how the government will finance the project after the European Union rejected to help pay for purchases. The government is closed for cash and has Raised taxes now. In addition, the agreement with Bulgaria will provide only plants, not uranium to strengthen them.

Placing a more nuclear reactor in the war zone, it will increase the risks. War has already raised alarms Potential nuclear disaster at the zaporizhzhia factory near the front line and repeatedly hit Artillery and small armed fire.