Zelenskyy signs law on purchase of reactors for Khmelnytskyi NPP in Bulgaria

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law allowing the Energoatom national nuclear power generating company to purchase equipment (nuclear reactors and components) from the National Electricity Company of Bulgaria for the construction of power units at the Khmelnytskyi NPP.

This is evidenced by the data of draft law No. 11392, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

The law grants Energoatom permission to conduct negotiations, agree on the final version of the contract, sign it, make payments, accept and store equipment.

It also stipulates that Energoatom cannot carry out work on the placement, design and construction of power units at Khmelnytskyi NPP without the adoption of a special law.

Earlier, the initiative to build power units at Khmelnytskyi NPP based on Rosatom reactors that were delivered to Bulgaria caused controversy during discussions in expert circles and among politicians.

The European Union Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarína Mathernová, in a comment to the European Truth publication, stated that the project was developed without the participation of the EU and that it would not finance it, since the European Union does not finance nuclear energy projects at all.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Andrii Zhupanin, a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People faction, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on energy and housing and communal services, believes that the completion of two power units at the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant will make it possible to avoid raising tariffs for the population.