Cabinet Allocates 45.2 Hectares Of Forest In Chernobyl Exclusion Zone For Construction Of Centralized Storage Facility For Spent Nuclear Fuel
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated 45.2 hectares of forest in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Kyiv region for construction of a centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
Ukrainian News learned this from governmental resolution No.721 dated October 5, 2016.
The Cabinet of Ministers has endorsed a decision to allocate the land plot for construction of the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from reactors of the VVER type of the national nuclear power plants a railway to the centralized storage facility.
The centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will be located in the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
The control area will be 600 meters around the site of the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
Cutting-edge technologies and equipment provided by the Holtec International Company (the United States) will be used during the exploitation of the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
Pursuant to the governmental resolution, 45.20 hectares of forest will be transferred from the State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone to the Energoatom National Nuclear Power Generating Company for construction and exploitation of the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
In compliance with the legislation, the Energoatom National Nuclear Power Generating Company shall compensate for losses caused by the allocation of the land plot to the State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone.
The allocation of the land plot allows to start preparatory works on construction of the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. Energoatom had to postpone the works as it did not have the right to use the land plot.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has signed an agreement with a US bank for a loan of USD 260 million for financing construction of a centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (Kyiv region).