KYIV, Nov 20 – Westinghouse has delivered the thousandth fuel assembly for VVER-1000 type reactors to Ukraine, which will be installed at the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP) in a WR fuel assembly reloading batch, the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom has reported.
"Now Westinghouse fuel is used at six reactors of Ukrainian NPPs, and after 2021 it will be loaded to the seventh out of 13 reactors of VVER-1000 type. Rivne NPP will join Yuzhnoukrainsk and Zaporizhia NPPs. In addition, it is planned to develop production of fuel assembly's elements (heads and bottom nozzles) for Westinghouse fuel assemblies at the production facilities of our Atomenergomash," First Vice President, Chief Technology Officer Oleksandr Shavlakov said.
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