energoatom
nuclear generation is the responsibility of state enterprise national nuclear energy generating company energoatom (nnegc energoatom), established in october 1996 .
october, 2006 –march, 2008 – vice president for finance, nnegc “energoatom” .
october з, 1999 – january, 2003 – chief accountant, nnegc “energoatom” .
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in the course of presenting the licence, snrc chief boris stolyarchuk said energoatom had met an
extremely large
number of legislative conditions, according to an energoatom statement .
state enterprise national nuclear energy generating company
energoatom
(
energoatom
) to assist with the safety upgrade of power units of nuclear power plants. energoatom is a 100% state enterprise, subordinated to the ministry of energy and coal industry of ukraine .
nnegc energoatom company profile is a detailed strategic and analytical report on nnegc energoatom. the 2018 version of the report offers detailed insights into the companys strategies, developments, outlook and
nnegc energoatom company profile is a detailed strategic and analytical report on nnegc energoatom. the 2018 version of the report offers detailed insights into the companys strategies, developments, outlook and
the objective of the proposed consultancy assignment is to advise energoatom on corporatisation and to strengthen its institutional capacity and sustainability. the selected consultant will be required to assist energoatom as follows :
the response to the report from the state - owned nuclear power operator energoatom and nuclear regulators, however, has been strong and swift. energoatom sued the group for putting forth what it
stg commences construction and erection of the novovoronezh nuclear power plant - 2 under the contract with energoatom concern .
yatsenyuk ordered an independent audit of energoatom' s financial and economic activity to enable allegations of abuse and corruption to be lifted if they are proven to be false .
pursuant to this order, energoatom is preparing a package of tender documents for the selection of an auditor for two areas – issues related to energoatom' s procurement pricing procedure and to the conclusions of the state financial inspection of ukraine' s audit of energoatom ,
nedashkovsky said .
at
transparency international
seminar on
anticorruption
for # energoatom. some great insights into main issues. urltoken
eu today meeting tonight with yuriy nedashkovskyi, president of # ukraine nuclear power co. # energoatom in # brussels urltoken
nnegc energoatom (energoatom) is a power utility that operates nuclear plants. the company operates zaporizhzhya; rivne; south ukraine; and khmelnitsky plants. energoatom constructs and operates wind plants in crimea. it also provides maintenance and repair services; invests in residential buildings; manufactures metal structures, containers, thermal insulations, fireproof doors, and containment prestressing system fitting cables for npps; and transports goods and people across the country. energoatom is headquartered in kyiv, ukraine .
energoatom has a long way to go before acquiring full financial independence, and will continue to receive state budget funding .
on 16 june, 2010 aidyn aisin was appointed vice president of nnegc “energoatom” (cmu order # 1239 - r) .
ukrainian npps are now financially well doing, and °∆energoatom°« started several investment projects. among these project the most important are :
“it’s also a responsibility. energoatom will have to make more efforts in the fields of anti - corruption to keep improving. ”
energoatom has postponed the completion target date for its program to improve the safety of its nuclear power plants from 2017 to the end of 2020 .
transparency international - ukraine’s study into the state of business practices in ukraine produced joint leaders for the title of “most transparent” — energoatom and ukrtelecom .
energoatom, the state - owned nuclear power operator, did not immediately respond to e - mail and phone requests for comment on this article .
they used to keep this banner hung from their office balcony, which was conveniently located across from energoatom’s office balcony. holovko says that every day, when the energoatom employees took their smoke breaks, they’d have to stare right at those big black letters hung next to the radiation hazard sign :
i hope that this result marks the start of energoatom' s financial recovery and that it will improve its investment attractiveness ,
nedashkovsky said .
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energoatom’s financial dilemma is but one element of deeper, structural difficulties that also become manifest in repeated delays in implementing safety measures at ukraine’s nuclear reactors .
on february 22, 2018, the former head of a separate unit of the state enterprise national nuclear power generation company (nnpgc) «energoatom», suspected of causing damage to the se nnpgc «energoatom», was detained at the kyiv boryspil airport. during the last three months the suspect was mentioned in the wanted list .
national nuclear energy generating company energoatom (nnegc energoatom) is investigating how to improve the capacity of its vver - 1000 (v - 320) reactors up to 110 percent of the nominal level. there are currently 13 1, 000 mw (gross electrical capacity) vver - 1000 type reactors operating in ukraine .
in february 2010 energoatom signed a cooperation agreement with china guangdong nuclear power co (cgn) relating to nuclear power plant design, construction, operation and maintenance .
the state enterprise national nuclear energy generating company energoatom (
energoatom
) operates 4 npps, which produce 45. 6% of all electricity generated in ukraine 1. the company also maintains one of the largest wind power stations which is situated in crimea with a total capacity of up to 10. 4 mw 2 .
yuriy nedashkovskiy was appointed as a president of se nnegc energoatom by decree of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine № 124 - p dated 05. 03. 2014 .
at present, there are four operational npps in ukraine (rivne, khmelnytskyi, south ukraine and zaporizhzhia) providing approximately 46% of the country' s total electricity generation capacity. energoatom owns and operates these four plants. the main activities of energoatom are the construction, commissioning and exploitation of nuclear installations and nuclear waste management .
in october 2015 energoatom signed agreements with tractabel engineering from belgium for safety upgrades and capacity uprates of reactors. tractabel has offered technical and engineering assistance with completing khmelnitski 3 & 4. in march 2016 energoatom announced an agreement between turboatom and westinghouse to uprate the capacity of 13 vver - 1000 turbine generator sets by up to 10% .
, nnegc “energoatom” has signed two contracts under the credit agreement with european bank of reconstruction and development euroatom. the first contract was signed between “energoatom” and a consortium of euroean nuclear companies edf (france), tractebel (belgium), enprima (finland) that is the adviser of the group of project management of power units’ safety increase
he worked at zaporizhzhya npp, rising from the position of an engineer of the reactor check - out and test hall up to the general director. form 1996 to 2000 biley worked as general director of zaporizhzhya npp. between 2000 and 2002 he served as qa director of nnegc”energoatom”, in 2003 he successively occupied positions of production director & deputy head of operating body, technical director & deputy head of operating body of nnegc”energoatom”. since december 2003 biley has been general inspector - safety director, nnegc “energoatom” .
on march 2011 mr. shavlakov was appointed first vice president – technical director of nnegc energoatom (order # 157 - r of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine) .
for energoatom to become profitable will not be easy. first, tariffs will have to be reviewed to include expenditures on transport and decommissioning of nuclear waste, environmentalists say .
difficulties are piling up for ukraine’s state nuclear operator energoatom whose accounts remain frozen since april this year due to a pending case at the national court over outstanding debt payments .
however, the atu union warned that the nuclear workers' wages have still not been paid. the national nuclear power utility energoatom owes them more than 15 million us dollars .
“this strategic cooperation with turboatom is an excellent example of how westinghouse is committed to providing its customer, energoatom, with innovative technical solutions to further improve plant efficiency and safety, ” said aziz dag, westinghouse vice president and managing director, northern europe. “we also look forward to working with other local ukrainian suppliers to support energoatom’s capacity upgrade project. ”
energoatom and privately - held ukrtelecom joint stock company scored 8. 9 out of a possible 10. pjsc arcelormittal kryvyi rih took third with a combined score of 8. 4 .
energoatom has set up atomproektengineering to handle new nuclear power projects, including investment, design, and construction. it has already been involved with khmelnitski 3 & 4 (see below). in october 2010 atomenergomash announced that it and naec energoatom would set up a strategic consortium to localize nuclear equipment manufacture in ukraine, particularly in relation to khmelnitski 3 & 4 .
the nuclear industry assures that future stock in energoatom and other enterprises will remain state property and that the goal of the reform is not privatisation, but the elevation of their enterprises’ effectiveness .
energoatom is currently unable to serve loans from european institutions. even though a european commission study assessed the company’s credit worthiness, ukrainian taxpayers now have to pay back part of the loans .
in september 2017, energoatom signed a contract with westinghouse to supply monitoring instrumentation systems to the zaporozhe plant as part of the ongoing complex consolidated safety upgrade program of nuclear power plants in ukraine .
ukraine’s energoatom state nuclear power monopoly has brushed off any fears about the safety repercussions of the extra burden being put on the country’s four atomic power plants, one of which is europe’s largest .
“energoatom” has maid mainly all terms that precede coming into force of credit agreements. one of the main terms was to sign the contracts with consortium edf - tractebel - enprima and the company enertec .
energoatom has received regulatory approval to start construction of a central used fuel storage facility at the site of the chernobyl nuclear power plant in ukraine. the state nuclear regulatory inspectorate of ukraine (snrc) issued a licence on 6 june regarding
the right to carry out activities in the construction and commissioning of a nuclear installation
, marking the official start of work on the facility, energoatom said .
the amendment means that energoatom is responsible for the civil design and construction of the facility, while holtec is responsible for the design and supply of used nuclear fuel dry storage, transport and related equipment .
st. petersburg – with the transformation earlier this month of russia’s state nuclear utility rosenergoatom into the joint stock company energoatom, russia’s nuclear industry is hoping both to get government budget funding and attract investors .
“today, naek energoatom and westinghouse are pleased to announce that we have reached agreement to significantly deepen our partnership that will provide technology and knowledge transfer to enhance the safety and operations of ukraine’s nuclear power fleet .
ukraine' s 15 nuclear power units at four nuclear power plants are operated by nnegc energoatom, the country' s nuclear power utility. following the addition of two new vver - 1000 reactors in 2005, capacity increased to 13, 107 which was 26. 3% of the country’s total installed capacity. energoatom expects nuclear to retain its contribution of 50 - 52% of ukraine' s electricity in 2020 .
original design lifetime of the russian reactors was 30 years. energoatom initially planned to extend the lifetimes of rovno 1 & 2 and south ukraine 1 by 15 years and final checking of the pressure vessels (for embrittlement) and the internals of all three units was in 2008 - 9. in mid - 2012 energoatom announced that the 11 oldest 1000 mwe reactors were to have 20 - year life extensions by 2030 .
the task suggested by se “nnegc “energoatom” was considered in the category case study, which aim was to solve analytical issues, detailed research of particular subject, problem, process having clear time and space boundaries .
the borrower (energoatom) should be in a position to service and to reimburse the proposed euratom loan, its former and foreseen loans provided the regulated tariff is adjusted to allow full coverage of these expenses .
credit agreements will come into force, when nnegc “energoatom” will make certain terms. list of the main terms of the ebrd credit consists of 9 positions and 2 additional. and euroatom contract consists of 22 positions .
unfortunately, the procurement process has also succumbed to time - tested, soviet - legacy corruption methods. the ukrainian anti - corruption agency, nobu, recently uncovered bribes paid by the czech company skoda js to officials at energoatom. illegal withdrawals of public funds for cable products, working with offshore companies that sponsor terrorism worldwide, and overpayments by energoatom of hundreds of millions of uah, have all been uncovered by ukrainian anti - corruption officials .
in october 2016 energoatom signed an agreement with ge power sp. zo. – formerly alstom’s polish subsidiary – to upgrade nuclear power plant turbine hall equipment and to expand cooperation in the long - term service of such equipment .
unit of the rnpp) for the sum of 2 million euro. the second was made between nnegc “energoatom” and british company enertec (the adviser of creditors of ebrd - euroatom) for the sum of 650 000 euro .
meanwhile, nuclear energy is still being portrayed in ukraine as a cheap and the only alternative for securing energy supply. but energoatom’s troubles on taxpayers’ expense are just one more sign for the mismanagement of ukraine’s nuclear energy sector .
it gets worse. operating in such a permissive environment, energoatom no longer feels any pressure to observe the best domestic regulatory or international practices in its procurement operations. instead of adhering to the procedures of the international atomic energy agency (iaea) and hiring companies with a proven track record, energoatom started using dubious firms that do not possess the necessary experience and expertise to do work. international inspections are pro forma and only carried out infrequently .
according to mr. nedashkovsky, ukraine will need to build new npps to substitute those that will be decommissioned after 2010. for this, °∆energoatom°« already received offers from usa, france, canada, russia and other countries .
the case over an allegedly unpaid usd 5 million debt was filed by ukrelektrovat, an energy investment company, after president poroshenko decided in march to not extend a moratorium on the ability to sue strategic energy companies such as energoatom .
now that the company’s free ride is over, energoatom is unable to pay for nuclear fuel and other needs. yet, its economic difficulties will likely not impact its international lenders, euratom and the european bank for reconstruction and development (ebrd), who have each provided energoatom with eur 300 million loans. instead, it is ukrainian tax payers – already under stress by an economic downturn and the devaluation of their currency – who have to foot the bill .
in august 2016 energoatom signed an agreement with korea hydro & nuclear power (khnp), one objective of which is to cooperate in the ukraine - eu' energy bridge' project, as well as completing khmelnitski 3 & 4 .
late in 2006 the government moved to set up a new national nuclear industry entity - ukratomprom, as a vertically - integrated nuclear holding company reporting to energy ministry and cabinet. ukratomprom was to consist of six state - owned enterprises including energoatom, the vostgok uranium mining company, and the novokonstantinov uranium development company, with assets of some us $ 10 billion, including $ 6. 35 billion for energoatom. three major projects were to be launched in 2007, including a $ 1875 million uranium production venture comprising refurbishment of vostgok' s hydrometallurgical plant and construction of a uranium mill at novokonstantinov. then it was announced that energoatom would not be included in ukratomprom, and soon afterwards plans were abandoned .
problems affecting nuclear power generation included energorynok' s
chronic
non - payment, he said. state enterprise energorynok acts as the commercial operator and' single buyer' in ukraine' s wholesale electricity market. during the reporting period, energorynok paid energoatom uah 1. 7 billion ($ 80 million), which was just less than 10% of the total value of the electricity it received. repayments of its debt to energoatom
virtually ceased
, nedashkovsky said .
1. following this invitation for expressions of interest, a shortlist of qualified consultants will be formally invited to submit proposals. shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding. energoatom will be the contracting party for this assignment .
the principal company energoatom has been the beneficiary of grants from international ifis including the ebrd and euroatom to support development and maintenance work. the company works in close co - operation with dg energy and dg development of the european commission. €
we consider this a breach of the contract terms ,
grigoriev said. he pointed out that tvel has net received yet any official notification from energoatom regarding full core charge of the us fuel in a reactor at the south ukrainian npp .
as soon as it happens, we will defend our rights ,
he said. however, he added that tvel would not suspend fabrication of nuclear fuel for ukraine in spite of the fact that energoatom' s accounts had been frozen because of litigation. in march, ukrainian law - enforcers froze energoatom' s assets and bank accounts over allegedly unpaid debts. the company has appealed against the charges in court but no decision has been reached yet and the accounts remain frozen .
the unian news agency reported today that the change in schedule was announced by gregoriy plachkov, energoatom' s deputy director of investment and long - term development, at a meeting of the state - run company' s friendly nuclear ua community .
energoatom’s president y. nedashkovsky said recently that ukrainian taxpayers have already had to jump in with 1. 2 million euro for paying back interest rates and installments of euratom’s loan. the loan was provided under state guarantees for energoatom’s so - called nuclear safety upgrade programme, that has been presented as a way to bring ukraine’s 15 ageing nuclear reactors in line with international standards but that is at the same time necessary to keep them working 10 to 20 years longer than they were designed to .
this, perversely, subjugates the regulator to the whims of the operator. if energoatom cannot meet certain safety standards or deadlines, its bosses simply inform the regulator of such, and the deadlines are extended or eliminated, public safety be damned .
energoatom said then the agreement would make it possible to use all its available nuclear capacity and attract funds for the completion of the third and fourth reactors of its khmelnitsky nuclear power plant. in july the same year, the ukrainian ...
“for energoatom, to be in the top ranks of transparency international ukraine’s corporate reporting recognizes the fact that we’re moving in the right direction with anti - corruption implementation, ” oleg polishchuk, director of energatom’s anti - corruption centre, told the ubj .
following the annexation of crimea by russia, in april 2014 ukraine extended its 2008 contract with westinghouse for fuel supply through to 2020. in 2015 energoatom ordered westinghouse fuel for unit 5 of the zaporozhe plant, as well as for south ukraine. it plans to use westinghouse fuel in zaporozhe 1, 3, 4 and 5, and has loaded this fuel into unit 5. this fuel is fabricated at the westinghouse plant at vasteras in sweden. westinghouse commented :
this new agreement for westinghouse vver fuel design testifies to the quality of our fuel design and demonstrates that it has, in fact, operated without issue at the south ukraine nuclear power plant, as confirmed by extensive and recent joint energoatom and westinghouse inspections. this contract extension... . will allow energoatom to continue diversification of its fuel supply. we expect that... westinghouse will grow its share of the ukrainian nuclear fuel market. ” russian sources have since suggested that the westinghouse vver fuel is unlicensed and dangerous. in 2015 energoatom bought 5% of its fuel from westinghouse, worth $ 32 million, out of a total of $ 644 million. in 2016 energoatom imported $ 549 million of fuel, with $ 387 million (70. 5 %) of this from tvel and $ 162 million (29. 5 %) from westinghouse – less than the expected 40% . in 2017 energoatom bought $ 368. 9 million worth of nuclear fuel from tvel and $ 164. 4 million of westinghouse fuel from sweden .
units, and stresses that skoda js “operates by european laws in spite of the fact that the russian company is its shareholder. ” energoatom has dismissed chinese expressions of interest. then in august 2016 energoatom signed an agreement with korea hydro & nuclear power (khnp), one objective of which is to cooperate on the completion of khmelnitski 3 & 4. an associated objective is to cooperate on the ukraine - eu' energy bridge' project, exporting power from khmelnitski 2 to poland. in july 2017 energoatom said that skoda js had modified the design and would supply both engineering services as well as many of the components for the two units, with overall 70% ukrainian content. they are now expected online in 2023 and 2025, using westinghouse fuel .
in the 1990s both the government and energoatom were determined to bring two new reactors – khmelnitski 2 and rovno 4 (k2 - r4) – into operation as soon as possible. both reactors were 80% complete when a halt was imposed in 1990 .
energoatom is
constantly
working on projects to improve the safety of its plants, plachkov stressed .
this process is permanent, we never stop improving safety and work on it every day. it is our duty as a licensee of nuclear installations .
and in march 2017 energoatom said that it would start to function in 2019 with 1550 mwe as the
first step on the way to fully integrated strategic synchronisation of the ukrainian and european energy systems .
it will be completed by 2025, with 2550 mwe
in 1996 the former nuclear operating entity goskomatom set up a new corporate nuclear utility, national nuclear energy generating company (nnegc) energoatom. nnegc energoatom is responsible for the safety of all ukrainian npps under the law on nuclear power use and radiation safety. its main task is construction of new power capacities and life extension for the existing plants, procurement of new fuel and transportation of used fuel, establishment of the national infrastructure for management of irradiated fuel, ensuring physical security of nuclear power facilities, and professional training and development of personnel. energoatom' s initial priorities were to increase safety, bring load factors up to 83 - 85% , and extend the working lives of the reactors by 10 - 15 years (at about us $ 150 million per vver - 1000 reactor) .
within the frames of european engineering competition ebec, se “nnegc “energoatom” has suggested to the students to look at the possibilities to assure more stable operation of integrated power grid of ukraine by construction of new generating capacities taking into account their maneuverability, cost and environmental compatibility .
ukraine' s ability to manage the 2015 - 2016 heating season will depend on the ability of its nuclear power plants to cover winter peak load, energoatom president yuri nedashkovsky said during a presentation of the state - run company' s first - half financial results yesterday .
ebrd, a public sector bank investing in eastern europe and elsewhere on behalf of 64 countries and the european union, last year announced a €300 million loan to the ukrainian state nuclear power company, energoatom. it is the largest nuclear safety loan the bank has made .
the 105 - page report forecasts that the price of electricity in ukraine will increase from 27. 1 kopeks per kilowatt / hour in 2012 to 54. 4 kopeks per kilowatt / hour in 2020. “significant tariff increases will be required for energoatom, ” it says .
°…every second kilowatt - hour of electricity in ukraine is generated by nuclear power plants°…, says the president of ukrainian energy - generating company °∆energoatom°«, yuriy nedashkovsky. the company reports significant success in its operations. and the main one, beyond doubt, is the decision by the government of ukraine that from now on °∆energoatom°« company is an operator of all fourukrainian npps (zaporizka; 6 reactors, pivdenno - ukrainska; 4 reactors, rivnenska; 3 reactors, khmelnytska; 1 reactor), fully responsible for their management, safety and economic results .
under a 2008 contract, westinghouse supplied a total of 630 fuel assemblies for south ukraine 2 & 3. however, these trials to 2011 were contentious, with energoatom claiming manufacturing defects in the fuel and westinghouse asserting errors in fuel loading. each reactor has 163 fuel assemblies .
construction by atomstroyexport (now niaep - ase). the energy ministry was reported to want skoda js to take over the contract from atomstroyexport. however the foreign ministry initially opposed this due to skoda js being owned by russia’s omz, and energoatom appealed to the president to resolve the matter. the cost for completing the two units had been put at €3. 7 billion including the first fuel load at €296 million. energoatom’s later estimate is €4 billion. a polish investor has offered finance of €1. 48 billion in return for electricity supply to poland .
energoatom’s four nuclear facilities are comprised of 15 operating nuclear power units, 13 of which are vver - 1000 reactors and two vver - 400, aggregating a total installed capacity of 13, 835 mwe. as such, ukraine ranks seventh in the world in terms of the total installed npp capacity. the main goal of energoatom’s activity is to increase electricity production and the npps’ capacity factor while ensuring continued improvement of the operational safety to meet international standards. energoatom’s electricity production meets about 55% of ukraine’s total electricity demand (in recent winters, 60 %), although its installed capacity represents only 26. 6% of the ukrainian total. beside the four nuclear power plants, the company also comprises 9 service subdivisions, in particular, those for nuclear machine building industry and instrumentation engineering. around 35, 000 employees work in the company .
energoatom’s financial backers, the ebrd and, via euratom, the european commission, must re - assess the viability of their support. if not because of the numerous safety concerns, then now in light of their client’s financial vulnerabilities and the financial burden this brings to ukrainian citizens .
ukrainian nuclear utility energoatom has breached the terms and conditions of the contract with russian fuel company tvel for fuel supplies to ukraine' s npps, oleg grigoriev, tvel vice president for commerce and international cooperation, told journalists on 30 may. he noted that in 2010 the parties had signed a fuel supply contract for all ukraine' s npps until the end of their service life - until approximately 2042 - 2043 taking into account life extensions. under this contract, energoatom had the right to use fuel of another producer (westinghouse electric co) on a limited scale .
these continued troubles must raise questions over the viability of the loans granted to the company by european institutions. but a feasibility study (pdf, censored version), requested by the european commission prior to approving the euratom loan in 2014, positively evaluated energoatom’s ability to repay the loans :
meanwhile, nabu announces that it has served a notification of suspicion to ex - mp martynenko, one of narfront' s most powerful men, in the case of $ 6 - mln embezzlement from state - owned # energoatom (case chart below); funds on swiss bank accounts seized. urltoken
“the sop will bring together the best practices of global operating experience and advanced technology combined with ukrainian experts and industries such as westron and turboatom. this agreement to proceed on a safety optimization program represents a significant new partnership between naek energoatom and westinghouse in providing joint support to ukraine’s nuclear energy. ”
in 2016 the government set an end - of - year target date for energoatom to introduce load - following capability in all its vver reactors, though the company said it would take at least two years to achieve this. trials have been in the range 100% to 75% of power .
“we never for a moment stopped our cooperation and collaboration with ukrainian partners – naec ” energoatom “, state concern ” nuclear fuel “and other enterprises. we fulfill all our commitments on nuclear fuel supplies, equipment, materials, works and services at ukrainian npps as scheduled ”, – said merten .
energoatom president, mr. nedashkovsky, described the memorandum of understanding as an integral part of his company’s aim to fully exploit existing ukrainian nuclear power electricity production, the backbone of the country’s energy system, which is currently underutilized but has a remarkable performance and technological potential to help strengthen ukraine’s energy independence .
despite energoatom' s
significant advances
in the fight against corruption, nedashkovsky faced the serious problem of a
flurry of allegations
by certain government agencies that were then repeated by the media .
there is no evidence to support these allegations and so we believe they were fabricated and aimed at destabilizing nuclear power generation ,
he said. on 7 july, during a meeting of an expanded board of the country' s energy ministry, ukrainian prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk drew attention to the
massive criticism
of energoatom, including claims based on the findings of the state financial inspection of ukraine .
in september 2015 parliament voted to repeal the 2012 law on construction of the two units on the basis of non - performance by atomstroyexport. the government wanted skoda js to take over the project, and skoda was keen to do so. energoatom has signed an agreement with barclays bank to finance completion of the
the mid - 2011 energy policy revision proposed 2300 mwe of new capacity with decision on technology to be after 2015. following this there will be a need for replacing plants which are decommissioned in the 2030s. energoatom proposes to select a standard pwr (or possibly candu) design from among leading vendors for the remaining planned units after khmelnitski 3 & 4. this will involve consideration of local content in the plants. while russian vver technology was the most obvious fit until 2014, energoatom' s atomproektengineering division had provided a feasibility study recommending making provision for use of candu ec - 6 reactors to the ministry in october 2010 .
according to a august 11th decree issued by the federal agency for the management of state property, the charter capital of the energoatom concern is 318. 3 billion roubles ($ 12. 9 million). one hundred percent of the stock will be transferred to the government holding atomenergoprom by the end of this year .
energoatom increased the share of nuclear energy in the country' s electricity mix during the first six months of this year by 9. 6 percentage points year on year to 56. 6% . net income from electricity sales amounted to uah 15. 588 ($ 730 million), an increase of 48. 5% .
life extension and upgrades - in 2008 and 2009, energoatom successfully extended the operating licenses of three of its reactors by 20 years. based on these and other subsequent success with npp life extensions, energoatom is working with the european bank for reconstruction and development (ebrd) as well as euratom to upgrade additional reactors. though the life extension program is being challenged under the un convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context, energoatom continues with life extensions. fuel - for decades, ukraine had been nearly entirely dependent on russian nuclear fuel procurement from rosatom because ukraine does not convert, enrich, or fabricate its fuel. despite a lack of domestic enrichment capacity, ukraine does possess mineral uranium resources, including approximately 2 percent of the world’s uranium reserves. traditionally, ukraine sent its uranium concentrate and zirconium alloy to russia for enrichment. to reduce the risk of complete dependence on russia, however, in december 2014, ukraine signed the contract with westinghouse electric company to begin diversifying its nuclear fuel supply. in 2016 ukraine imported 28. 3 percent of nuclear fuel elements from westinghouse, and in 2017 it plans to increase these imports. ukraine took an additional step towards diversification in august 2016 when it signed a supply contract for enriched uranium with the anglo - german - dutch company, urenco. waste management - ukraine has an open fuel cycle and two storage facilities for spent fuel, one dry at the zaporozhye plant and one wet at the chernobyl plant. currently, ukraine sends its spent fuel to russia and energoatom pays russia $ 150 - 200 million per annum to accept and store this spent nuclear fuel. in january 2015, energoatom and the u. s. firm holtec signed a contract to construct a centralized dry storage facility for spent fuel (csfsf) in the chernobyl exclusion zone to reduce ukraine' s reliance on russia. in january 2017, energoatom announced a tender for the preparation of the construction site for csfsf, which it will commission in the third quarter of 2018 .
khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant is the start of the deactivated rzeszów–khmelnytskyi powerline, one of three 750 kv lines running from ukraine to the european union. energoatom are considering disconnecting unit 2 from the ukrainian power grid and connecting it to the burshtyn tes energy island which operates on the european power grid, to facilitate exports to poland and hungary .
the combined forces of south korea and ukraine represents a wealth of nuclear power experience and expertise. khnp operates 24 reactors and has six additional units under construction. for its part, energoatom operates 15 reactors at four different nuclear power plants. the countries have respective nuclear capacities of 21, 716 mwe and 13, 835 mwe, respectively .
the detectives of the national anti - corruption bureau of ukraine (nabu) continue the pre - trial investigation as of the facts of receiving improper advantage during the procurement procedures made by state enterprise (se) «national nuclear energy generating company (nnegc) «energoatom». the statements that according to the court decision the nabu has to close the proceeding are not true .
i believe that before the end of the year we will have an objective assessment of how energoatom actually conducted its financial and economic activity. i have no doubt that on the whole these findings will be in our favour, but i also know that we have a lot of shortcomings in the preparation of tenders and that this situation must be put right .
“energoatom was one of the first to develop and implement basic compliance systems, once transparency became legally necessary, ” he said, “we saw the legislation was being drafted, prepared anti - corruption measures, and when the law was enacted, we were ready to implement our program in full. other companies interested in compliance have modeled their efforts on our own. ”
because of the constant delays, ukraine’s government has moved the deadline for implementing the safety upgrade programme from 2017 to 2020. as result of the postponement, energoatom’s financial difficulties and the mounting pressure from ukraine’s neighbours and civil society, ukraine’s state nuclear regulator, snriu, postponed decisions scheduled for may on the lifetime extensions of yet another two units, zaporizhia 1 and 2 .
ukraine ’s nuclear power plants are supposed to be regulated by the state nuclear regulatory inspectorate of ukraine (snriu), which by law is an independent regulatory body. in recent years, however, it has become standard practice for the leaders of snriu to be appointed by the state nuclear power plant operator, energoatom, instead of through a rigorous, independent selection process .
a highlight of the first half - year reporting period, he said, was the cabinet of ministers' 15 june decision to start a pilot project for a ukraine - european union energy bridge. as part of this project - to supply electricity from the khmelnitski nuclear power plant to poland and other eu countries - energoatom aims to prepare and submit six projects for government approval .
the two oldest units in ukraine, rovno 1 & 2, were to be replaced as part of the 2006 nuclear power strategy. in 2018, however, energoatom signed an agreement with holtec international to replace them by 2030 with multiple smr - 160 units. it is intended that this will be a pilot project, and will set up a manufacturing hub for these reactors .
however, lack of payment is delaying the return of used fuel from ukraine too russia for reprocessing. russian state nuclear corporation rosatom has delayed acceptance of the first batch of used nuclear fuel from ukraine this year because of energoatom' s failure to pay. oleg kryukov, director of public policy on radwaste, used fuel and nuclear decommissioning at rosatom, told journalists at the viii international forum atomexpo 2016 :
the contract is in force but there are problems with payments in ukraine now due to a suit against energoatom and the freezing of its accounts. there are no payments; therefore, we had to postpone taking back the first batch of used fuel this year ,
kryukov said. however, he added that rosatom intends to continue working under this contract .
but
the positives outweighed the negatives
in the reporting period, he added, and energoatom managed to improve its financial position significantly, he said, with a net profit for january - june 2015 of uah 2 billion ($ 93. 7 million) compared with a net loss in the same period of 2014 of uah 3. 536 billion ($ 166 million) .
in august and october 2004 khmelnitski 2 and rovno 4 respectively were connected to the grid, bringing their long and interrupted construction to an end and adding 1900 mwe to replace that lost by closure of chernobyl 1 & 3 in 1996 and 2000 respectively. they were completed by energoatom using a consortium of framatome anp and atomstroyexport. see fuller account of k2 - r4 in appendix below .
russia takes back fuel from ukraine under a scientific - technical and economic cooperation agreement signed in 1993. a representative from energoatom said in april that between 2016 and 2018 ukraine was planning to ship more than 1, 000 used fuel assembly units to russia. in the future ukraine plans to store and reprocess all nuclear fuel inside but the necessary facilities for this are not yet in place .
in a statement, the atu presidium said it shared the icem' s view that the various international financial institutions and intergovernmental agencies which are supporting the renovation of the ukrainian nuclear industry must give immediate priority to targeted assistance for the settlement of the wage debt. on 17 march, the president of energoatom and the energy minister told the atu presidium that the necessary funds were still not available .
regardless of the proclaimed' independence' from russian oil provided by nuclear power, ukraine still imports nuclear fuel... from russia, and until recently sent back the nuclear waste. to reduce this dependency, two liquid nuclear waste storages were created. in jan 2005
energoatom
announced that work on a new solid waste storage plant will be carried out by us company holtec international .
state special enterprise chernobyl nuclear power plant was created on july 11, 2001 on base of the former energoatom' s company of the same name. the company was basically recommissioned under a special jurisdiction for the further decommissioning of its nuclear power station. on july 15, 2005 the enterprise was transferred from under the jurisdiction of the ministry of fuel and energy to the ministry of emergencies. [ 2 ]
korea hydro & nuclear power (khnp) and ukraine' s energoatom have signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines cooperation agreements that could bring to completion the third and fourth units at the khmelnitsky nuclear power plant that was begun in the mid - 1980s, but halted in 1990 and again in 2015 amid contractual disagreements with russia' s rosatom, which had taken up the project after the initial work stoppage .
according to ebrd, the total cost of completion would be about $ 1. 7 bn (technical design is not finished yet, so the sum is not final). main costs (about $ 1. 5 bn) will be invested by ukrainian organizations headed by ukrainian nuclear energy generating company energoatom, by euroatom and by russian businesses. russian organizations will be main contractors and suppliers for the project .
in september 2014 the new government introduced a bill to parliament that allowed the sale of 40% of energoatom to a foreign investor. this followed an announcement that the prime minister expected agreements for new nuclear reactor construction to be signed by the end of the year. however, refurbishment of older plants to extend operating lifetimes and bring them into conformity with eu standards seemed more probable, both economically and regarding timescale .
energoatom has been planning to raise its electricity tariff in order to finance reorganization of the nuclear fuel cycle complex and to implement safety modernizations at all plants, as well as to enable funding of life extensions and construction of new plants. a 2013 ebrd report related to a €300 million loan for reactor safety upgrading forecast a wholesale price doubling from 27 kopek / kwh in 2012 to 54 kopek / kwh in 2020 .
ukraine was using exclusively russian nuclear fuel in the first six months of 2015. in the second half of 2015, the share of nuclear assemblies supplied by the swedish westinghouse reached 10% , and exceeded 38% in the first six months of 2016. when ihor nasalyk became energy minister in may 2016, a noticeable rollback took place: westinghouse’s supplies of fuel for energoatom went down to 31. 2% .
stolyarchuk said energoatom was performing work of national importance since it
annually loses about $ 200 million exporting used nuclear fuel to russia
, he added. this is more than an economic consideration, he added, because nuclear fuel is a
strategic material, a future energy resource
. technologies are
constantly developing, and ukraine will be able to use its valuable nuclear material in the future
, he said .
in order to ensure the
swift detection of possible corruption offenses and a response to them
, energoatom operates an on - line
trust box
- a whistle - blower portal - and in the first six months of this year carried out 53 official investigations. these led to the prosecution of 48 people, the firing of four of its staff and on five occasions the company passed information on to law enforcement agencies .
today, westinghouse electric company and naek energoatom, the national nuclear energy generating company of ukraine, released a joint statement discussing the companies’ future partnership to sustain the safety of ukraine’s nuclear reactor fleet. the statement was issued during a visit to kiev by a special delegation of chief executive officers, including westinghouse’s interim president and ceo jose gutierrez, led by u. s. secretary of commerce penny pritzker and the u. s. department of commerce .
ukraine has also settled on a financing option, which involves selling electricity generated by khmelnitsky' s unit 2 to the european market. in march 2015, state - owned energoatom signed an mou with power distribution company ukrenergo and polish - owned polenergia, a multi - faceted energy company to help make that happen. the design of this mou was to implement the so - called “energy - bridge project, ” which involved trans - european energy distribution .
an important issue for energoatom, as for the whole country, he said, is the fight against corruption. the company has been working with the non - governmental organization transparency international ukraine since march ,
on matters of methodological support in understanding the basic requirements of anti - corruption legislation
, he said. in particular, training was arranged for the company' s management on analysing each business unit' s work to identify
corruption risks and manifestations
.
in january last year, energoatom and holtec signed an amendment to the contract to build the facility at the chernobyl nuclear power plant and supply used nuclear fuel dry cask storage systems. it will receive used nuclear fuel from nine of the country' s 15 reactors - seven vver - 1000s and two vver - 440s - located at rivne, south ukraine and khmelnitsky. the zaporozhe nuclear power plant operates its own on - site used fuel storage facility that was commissioned in 2001 .
on november 24, 2017 in the aarhus centre of the ministry of ecology and natural resources of ukraine, the ministry of ecology jointly with se nnegc “energoatom” representatives and with participation of the institutes that develop the environmental impact assessment (eia) reports of zaporizhzhya npp and south ukraine npp, as well as of independent ukrainian experts, held transboundary consultations in line with procedures of the convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context (espoo convention) with representatives of interested foreign countries .
ukraine insists that the only way to compensate lost capacities is to complete construction of unit 2 at khmelnytsky npp and unit 4 at rivne npp (k2 / r4 project). the g - 7 asked european bank for reconstruction and development (ebrd) to help ukraine in financing this project. to complete k2 / r4 ebrd considers loaning $ 190 million to ukrainian operator of nuclear power plants energoatom. apparently more investments from international and other companies will follow if ebrd approves the loan .
in november 2015 energoatom signed an agreement with areva “for safety upgrades of existing and future nuclear power plants in ukraine, lifetime extension and performance optimization. ” it said that its “very strong modernization and reconstruction program …. is being funded by the european community, euratom and the ebrd” as part of a new phase in the development of eu - ukraine contractual relations, aiming at political association and economic integration. a 2012 agreement for rosatom to complete two russian reactors had been revoked in september 2015 .
in may 2015 energoatom applied for a 15 - year licence extension for zaporozhe 1, and in september 2016 the licence was extended to december 2025 after an extended outage for upgrading. with a similar upgrade underway, in august 2016 zaporozhe 2 was cleared for operation to 2026, and the licence was extended in october. zaporozhe 3 shut down in february 2017 for a similar upgrade and ten - year licence extension, and will come back online when a new transmission link is commissioned late in 2017 .
stolyarchuk said the holtec technology to be used is already in use in many other countries, including belgium, spain, sweden and the usa, which
confirms its safety
. in may, energoatom president yury nedashkovsky led a delegation to holtec' s plants in pittsburgh, (pennsylvania), orrville (ohio) and camden (new jersey). he said then the trip had confirmed the high quality of holtec' s production base and its ability to transfer that expertise to the ukrainian project.
energoatom , full name national nuclear energy generating company of ukraine ( ukrainian : наек " енергоатом " ) is a ukrainian state enterprise operating all four nuclear power stations in ukraine . 
energoatom, full name national nuclear energy generating company of ukraine (ukrainian: наек " енергоатом ") is a ukrainian state enterprise operating all four nuclear power stations in ukraine.
energoatom, full name national nuclear energy generating company of ukraine (ukrainian: наек " енергоатом ") is a ukrainian state enterprise operating all four nuclear power stations in ukraine.