EU will not fund new units for Khmenlytskyi nuclear plant – envoy Katarina Materna

EU Declines to Fund Completion of Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Plant – Ambassador Materna Speaks Out

Source: European Pravda

he European Union is not interested in joining the project that must help Ukraine add  two energy units at Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant, according to Katarína Materna, the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine. In her interview with  European Pravda, she was blunt,

“We were not involved in preparing this draft law. Whether Ukraine decides to build nuclear plants or not is entirely within its government’s prerogative.”

The Ukrainian Parliament is set to review Bill No. 11146 on December 17.  It proposes the construction of the two reactors at Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant, with funding sourced from international donors. Materna though reminded the European Union does not finance nuclear power plant projects, partly because the EU member states still are divided on nuclear energy.