KIEV, Jan. 23 ??“ Ukraine and Russia are preparing a new agreement on nuclear fuel supplies to Ukrainian NPPs in 2006-2010 inclusive, Russian Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) chief Sergei Kiriyenko said.

"We are working out a new five-year agreement until 2010 and are using the same formula and the same principles, which were set in the inter-governmental agreement. It [the new agreement] envisages discount and, naturally, yearly prices indexing depending on what happens in the world, he said.