Repairs are completed at Ukrainian NPPs: all nine nuclear units are generating electricity

Repairs are completed at Ukrainian NPPs: all nine nuclear units are generating electricity

Kyiv  •  UNN

November 20 2023, 07:07 AM • 5143 views

The last power unit of a Ukrainian NPP has completed scheduled repairs. All nine units of Ukrainian NPPs are now connected to the grid and generating electricity

Scheduled repairs at the last Ukrainian nuclear power scheduled repairs at the last nuclear unit of the Ukrainian NPP have been completed. From now on, all nine nuclear power units at Ukrainian NPPs are now connected to the grid and generate electricity. UNN reports this from the press service of Energoatom.

Specialists of NNEGC Energoatom have completed scheduled repairs at the last, 9th nuclear unit of the national nuclear power plant. From now on, all power units located in the territory controlled by Ukraine are operating at full capacity. Ukraine-controlled territory.

A large-scale repair campaign at nuclear power plants campaign at nuclear power plants, which lasted several months, was completed before the before the onset of winter and frost. And this is extremely important, because it is nuclear generation that provides more than 55% of the country's electricity needs. This is the most sustainable and stable generation, which made it possible for our power system to survive last last winter. And I am sure that it will be the same this heating season

, said Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko.

He also said, that  Energoatom experts together with Westinghouse have done everything possible to ensure that VVER 440 nuclear units, which previously used Russian fuel, this year to operate on fuel produced at the company's plant in Sweden. company's plant in Sweden.

"So, we not only completed the repairs on time, but also repairs, but also put an end to Russia's monopoly on this segment of the nuclear fuel market," Galushchenko added.

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