News archive on the topic "nuclear energy"

It seems that demands from Ukraine to impose sanctions against Rosatom do not confuse the Russian giant at all - on the contrary, at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, the company’s top manager spoke about successful business. “We continue to work in 60 countries around the world, and I see that there are a huge number of countries where, on the contrary, they want us. Europe is afraid of some kind of energy dependence on Russia, but there is...

Russia has begun the process of connecting the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the Russian energy system and disconnecting it from the Ukrainian one. The President of the Ukrainian Energoatom, Petr Kotin, announced this on the air of a national propaganda telethon. “Rosatom personnel submitted to the station a special program for reconnecting the Zaporizhia NPP to Crimea. The prerequisite for this program is damage to the communication lines of the Zaporizhzhya NPP with the energy system of Ukraine. To switch the Zaporizhzhya NPP to Crimea,...

Moscow has a strong influence on Eastern European countries that need nuclear energy. The West, for its part, cannot offer them anything. Ukrainian military expert Igor Levchenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We practically don’t talk about nuclear energy as a factor of influence of the Russian Federation on countries around the world and, in...

Last Wednesday, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping launched the construction of new power units at the Tianwan NPP and Xudapu online. These projects will strengthen the hegemony of the two countries in nuclear energy. According to international experts, Russian and Chinese companies now control about 70% of the global market for the construction of new nuclear power plants, pushing aside the United States and France. And the current Tianwan is...

In five to ten years, nuclear power plants will begin to close en masse in Ukraine. Kharkov journalist Alexey Romanov writes about this on his Facebook page. He points out that there are 15 operating nuclear reactors in Ukraine, providing more than 50 percent of the electricity. “Of these, 10 reactors have ALREADY served their design life. Their service life was slightly extended due to...

The operation of existing power units at Ukrainian nuclear power plants cannot be extended without the consent of the Russian Federation, otherwise the guarantee for their operation will be lifted and Ukraine will face international sanctions. The former director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Mikhail Umanets, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today, without extending the life of nuclear units, we have nothing at all...

The United States views Ukrainians as Papuans to whom they can sell “high-tech beads.” Director of the Center for Applied Political Science Dmitry Zaborin writes about this on his Facebook page, according to whom, contrary to widespread rumors, American nuclear fuel does not pose a danger to Ukrainian nuclear power plants. “But something else is bad. In the case of American fuel, noted patriots allow us to screw Ukraine in the tail and...

Ukraine is the main shadow supplier of military technologies and nuclear materials in the world. Political scientist Evgeniy Satanovsky stated this on the air of the Vesti FM radio station today. “There is such a country, it is not Pakistan, it had all these technologies, because half of the institutes for their development were in Ukraine. Zheltye Vody with uranium, production of ballistic missiles, drawings, designer,…

Professional personnel are fleeing en masse from the Ukrainian nuclear energy industry and, in search of a better fate, “settle” in neighboring countries. Verkhovna Rada deputy Victoria Voitsitskaya, who visited the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, writes about this in her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “One of the key challenges, according to managers, is the massive layoff of personnel from diesel locomotive drivers, assemblers, excavator operators, to reactor control engineers and...

The Westinghouse company, from which Ukraine plans to purchase fuel for nuclear power plants, is in a pre-bankruptcy state. Member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Alexander Losev stated this today on the Vesti FM radio station. “The share of nuclear energy in the world’s overall energy balance has fallen by a quarter over the past 25 years. The same Westinghouse company that is going to supply...

It’s time for the Ukrainian authorities to either abandon hostile rhetoric against the Russian Federation or declare war on it. Ex-Minister of Transport and Communications, former Verkhovna Rada deputy Yevgeny Chervonenko said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Remove the rhetoric or declare war and say: “Mobilization everyone, let’s go to the front, let’s attack Red Square.” How...

The Ukrainian energy sector is faced with serious problems and challenges that are fraught with the most serious consequences for the country. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Political scientist Yuri Romanenko said this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have very serious problems in the energy sector; entire power units, for example, nuclear power plants, will fall out. If we don't...

In 2018, Rosatom may lose at least half of the Ukrainian fuel market for nuclear power plants, since Kyiv intends to purchase most of the volumes from Westinghouse, writes Kommersant. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte As the head of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Igor Nasalik said, if Russians now supply Ukraine with 60% of fuel, and...

In Kyiv, militants from the Aidar battalion seized the Institute of Nuclear Power Plant Safety Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which works with nuclear materials. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Director of the Institute Anatoly Nosovsky spoke about this in an interview with Ukrainian News. The editors of PolitNavigator, taking into account the resonance and scandalousness of the incident, to which Ukrainian law enforcement officers refuse to respond, invites its readers to familiarize themselves with...