Brussels (Platts)--21Dec2007

Radwaste management facilities at Chernobyl will be completed in 2008 and
handed over to Ukraine under an amended funding agreement, a European
Commission official said December 21. The contract for the Industrial Complex
for Solid Radwaste Management, co-funded by the EU, was awarded to Nukem
Nuklear GmbH in 2001, but the project has been delayed, according to Jean-Paul
Joulia, unit head at the EC's EuropeAid Co-operation Office. Joulia said the
amended agreement extending the EC's approval for the project to June 30, 2009
was approved by an EC decision on December 6. The contract foresees execution
of the project in three lots comprising a retrieval facility, a sorting and
processing facility and a near-surface repository site, he said.