Ukraine to build spent fuel storage facility without Framatome

Paris (Platts)--6Sep2005

Framatome is "incompetent" and Ukraine will build a spent fuel storage
facility for Chernobyl fuel without the French vendor, Ukraine's Deputy
Minister for Emergency Situations, Tatyana Asomova, said today. She told
Platts at an international conference in Vienna that Framatome's proposal to
finish the fuel facility in 2010, instead of 2005 as originally contracted,
and at three times the original cost, was "unprofessional" and "unacceptable"
for Ukraine. Donors to the International Chernobyl Fund managed by the
European Bank for Reconstruction & Development have postponed a decision on
how to proceed on the spent fuel project, now projected to cost 232-million
euros (U.S.$289-million), until the end of the year.

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