“A crisis in nuclear energy is beginning; Ukraine has nothing to buy nuclear fuel for”
A crisis begins in the nuclear energy industry of Ukraine.
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated this at a meeting of the Conciliation Council of faction leaders and chairmen of committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are beginning a crisis in nuclear energy. Thousands of nuclear workers took to the streets... What's going on? The price for thermal energy (i.e. for thermal power plants) has been increased immeasurably, which is not explained by any estimates. Due to this, all the money in the market is washed away, and nuclear energy has been reduced to zero. And now there is nothing to buy nuclear fuel for or pay wages. Is it necessary to govern the country in such a way that the nuclear industry is in a state of ruin? We demand to listen to the ministers of finance and energy to understand what is happening in the nuclear industry,” she said.
As PolitNavigator reported, the day before, workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went out to a protest rally at the mayor's office of the city of Slavutich demanding European salaries, as well as raising the cost of electricity generated by Energoatom power plants.
Recently, ex-Minister of Transport of Ukraine Yevgeniy Chervonenko said that after Euromaidan The United States almost staged a second Chernobyl in Ukraine – attempts to use American nuclear fuel at nuclear power plants built in Soviet times led to such consequences.
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