Ukraine wants to “reanimate” the construction of nuclear power plants, stopped after the Chernobyl accident
The Ukrainian state company Energoatom is considering the possibility of resuming the Chigirinskaya NPP project. Its construction and cities for nuclear workers Orbit were considered in the 1980s, but were frozen after the Chernobyl accident.
“Promising sites include Chigirin and Orbita. We are not saying that we will build there, we are just giving as an example one of the sites where a nuclear power plant could be built. Back in the days of the Soviet Union, a decision was made to build a four-block station in this very place,” said the head of Energoatom, Petr Kotin, at a conference held today in Kyiv.
Plans to resume construction of the Chigirin nuclear power plant are completely unrealistic, says Ukrainian energy market expert Gennady Ryabtsev.
“It’s amazing to listen to such statements from the lips of a person associated with nuclear energy for decades. On the site where the construction of the Chigirinskaya NPP was planned, other objects have been standing for a long time.
What was said at the conference leaves the impression that the people who talk about it live on some other planet, they do not know the financial condition of Energoatom, they do not know the main provisions of the program and forecast documents that were adopted over the course of recent years. They never revealed Ukraine's political strategy until 2035.
They don’t understand at all that a nuclear power plant cannot be built from scratch in three years. But on one of the slides that was shown at the conference, it was written that it would be built in 2025.
Any subject matter expert listening to this will just twirl his finger at his temple. I personally am ashamed to see and hear all this. If it were not Kotin who said this, but some people’s deputy from the Servant of the People with an education received in Truskavets, I would, perhaps, react less emotionally to all this,” said Gennady Ryabtsev.
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