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Ukraine, Russia sign deal to build two nuclear power reactors

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Ukraine and Russia signed Wednesday an agreement on cooperation in construction of two nuclear power reactors at Ukraine's Khmelnytskiy Nuclear Power Plant, the government reported.

The agreement was signed in Kiev by Yuriy Boyko, the Ukrainian energy and fuel minister, and Sergei Kiriyenko, the general director of Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear power corporation. The value of the agreement was not disclosed. Ukraine had been seeking to attract investments worth about $3.83 billion that would be enough to build the two reactors at Khmelnytskiy NPP by the end of 2016.

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Russia’s Atomstroiexport to build Khmelnytsky reactors three and four

Thursday, October 9, 2008

KIEV, Oct. 7 – The general contractor to build reactors three and four at the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant will be Russia's ZAO Atomstroiexport, a source in the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

"The interagency tender commission on the selection of the type of generating units for reactors three and four at the Khmelnytsky NPP has finished its work. After studying proposals from Atomstroiexport, South Koera's ÊÅÐÑÎ and U.S. company Westinghouse, the commission said that the Russian project was the best," the source said.

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Reactor at West Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Reconnected to Grid

Friday, September 26, 2008

Kiev, 26 September: Power generating unit No 2 at the Khmelnytskyy nuclear power plant was reconnected to the power grid at 2051 local time [1751 gmt] on 25 September after emergency repairs, the plant's press service told UNIAN.

The unit is working at 780 MW capacity today.

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Priorities for Ukraine's nuclear industry

Saturday, August 23, 2008

PRIORITIES FOR UKRAINE'S NUCLEAR INDUSTRY were the focus of a June 12 strategy meeting led by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. According to a statement released by Ukraine's nuclear operator, Energoatom, Tymoshenko said that immediate priorities include the construction of two new units at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power station and life extension for Rovno-1 and -2 and South Ukraine-1, which are now scheduled to end production between 2011 and 2013. She also identified the treatment of spent fuel and the development of a complete fuel cycle capability as priorities.

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Ukrainian Nuclear Reactor Shut Down Over Malfunction

Friday, July 25, 2008

Kiev, 25 July: The third unit of the Rivne nuclear power plant was automatically disconnected from the Ukrainian power network and shut down on Thursday [24 July], the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The ministry explained the shutdown with the insufficient level of water in the steam generator's cooler. The radiation is normal, the ministry said.

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Site contamination at Khmelnitsky NPP

Friday, March 29, 2002

16 February 2002 a radioactive leak from a pipeline, connecting Unit 1 reactor department and auxiliary building, was revealed. The leak came from a weld of a plug on the dead end of the pipeline supplying a boric acid solution from the spent fuel pools to a special water purification system, located in the auxiliary building. In the future the temporary plug shall be removed and the pipeline shall be extended to connect with future NPP units. As a result of the leak, 3 m3 of liquid of 2.84 x 10-6 Ci/l (0.105 GBq/m3) specific activity was released to the soil.

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On-site radioactive contamination

Friday, August 2, 1996

The unit No 1 was in planned outage from April 20, 1996. On July 24, 1996 preparations for primary circuit hydro-testing were in progress. Due to mistake of the personnel, a nitrogen supply pipeline was filled with primary coolant. This pipeline is designed to supply gaseous nitrogen from special building (located on-site) to the reactor building. It results in radioactive contamination of the pipeline, equipment and ground at the special building. Dose rate at the contaminated area was monitored to be 60 - 100 microR /hour (microroentgen per hour).

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Exceeding allowed maximum primary coolant temperature during planned outage

Wednesday, May 8, 1996

Unit N1 was in unplanned outage from 20.04.96, the reactor in cold shutdown condition. Residual heat was removed routinely by second channel of core cooling system. The first channel of this system was taken out of service for maintenance, the third one was in standby mode of operation. At 18:17 30.04.96 running pump of second channel switched off due to pressure drop at the pump inlet. The third channel's pump started up and switched off shortly afterwards due to the same reason. Feed and bleed was arranged (i.e.

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REACTOR SCRAM CAUSED BY THE CABLE FIRE UNDER THE TURBINE HALL PREMISES

Thursday, March 17, 1994

On March 16, 1994 at 8:45 p.m. local time an electrical cable under the turbine hall caught fire. At 8:47 pm after evaluation of the situation by the operator the reactor was manually scrammed (shut down). At 9.10 pm the fire source was extinguished. Due to the fire the affected cable was damaged. The unit is isolated for emergency repairs. No violation of the radiological situation took place.

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NO IMPACT TO SAFETY FOLLOWING RUPTURE OF A BYPASS FEEDWATER LINE

Tuesday, March 31, 1992

01.26 Ukrainian time on March 18, 1992, one steam generator feedwater heater was switched off for maintenance.
During this action a rupture of a bypass of the feedwater pipe (57 mm in diameter) occurred. This pipe supplies the hydraulic driver of the pump for separator-reheaters of the turbine. The reason for the rupture was pipe wall erosion.
There was no radioactive release nor exposure of staff. All safety functions were fully available. According to INES this event is out of scale because of no relevance for safety.

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