Ukraine Lacks Fuel to Restart Two Nuclear Reactors, Agency Says

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Ukraine Lacks Fuel to Restart Two Nuclear Reactors, Agency Says
  
Kiev, Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine postponed restarting two nuclear 
reactors at its Zaporizhska power plant after repairs, because of a 
lack of fuel, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported, citing Yuriy 
Nedashkivskyi, head of NAEK Energoatom, an umbrella company for 
nuclear plants. 

Ukraine needs about 210 million hryvnia (about $38.6 million) to buy 
the fuel for the two reactors, the news agency said. 

Ukraine, which buys nuclear fuel for its power plants from Russia 
only, said it paid Russia $80.8 million so far this year, or 37.7 
percent of the cost of the overall nuclear fuel supplies it needs to 
secure this year, the news agency said. 

Ukraine's nuclear power plants produce about 48 percent of the 
domestically made electricity.

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