Jarek Neverovic, former Lithuanian energy minister and chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on environment and infrastructure issues, has become chairman of the supervisory board of Energoatom, a source in the government told the Energoreforma Internet portal. Neverovic is an independent member of Energoatom’s National Assembly, which was formed back in June 2024, but has not been fully operational until now.
He has held various positions in his country’s government related to the operation of the electricity transmission system, management of investment funds and cooperation with national and multinational corporations.
According to Forbes.ua, citing its sources in Enerhoatom, another independent member of the National Assembly, Timothy Stone, refused to sign a contract, but is considering being an advisor.
As reported, Stone has experience as an independent director of the British Horizon Nuclear Power, a non-executive director of the European Investment Bank and heads the UK Nuclear Industry Association (NIA).
Prior to that, the fact that the supervisory board of Energoatom on Friday, January 17, elects its chairman and will begin full work, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.
“The issue of corruption, I think, will be solved….. Today the chairman of the supervisory board (“Energoatom” – ER) is already being fully elected. Accordingly, there will be a functioning supervisory board that will monitor all decisions that will be made. From the point of view of corporate governance, I think this is the best way out,” he said during the ‘Hour of questions to the government’, which is broadcast by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko (European Solidarity faction).
The Cabinet of Ministers approved Timothy Stone (Timothy John Stone), Michael E. Kirst and Jarek Neverovic as independent members of the supervisory board of Energoatom by order No. 566 of June 21, 2024, and Timofey Milovanov and Vitaliy Petruk as representatives of the state.
Since then, the Supervisory Board has not fully started its work. Interfax-Ukraine sources specified that the independent members were not satisfied with the amount of remuneration.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the terms of contracts with members of the NAEK’s supervisory board by Order No. 1224 of November 26, 2024, without disclosing details.
In December of the same year, First Deputy Economy Minister Oleksiy Sobolev said that the government was waiting for a position on the contracts and readiness to continue work from the independent members of Energoatom’s supervisory board, whose first meeting has been open since July 17. According to him, the proposed conditions are in line with salaries in other major Ukrainian energy companies.
In early January 2025, Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Golos faction) suggested that international partners should be involved in the discussion of the disruption of the NAEK Energoatom supervisory board.
The EU ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Maternova, said in a reply to a letter of inquiry from the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on 14 January that the G7 ambassadors had urged Prime Minister Denys Shmygal to ensure the work of the supervisory board of the NAEK Enerhoatom as soon as possible. According to her, having a full-fledged council will be important for discussing significant new investments.
NNEGC Energoatom has received a license from Westinghouse to manufacture fuel rod shanks for nuclear fuel assemblies in Ukraine, the company said on Thursday.
Earlier, NNEGC completed the licensing of the production of heads for fuel cassettes.
“In 2025, we will start supplying both heads and shanks produced at the facilities of Energoatom, a Westinghouse company. That is, some of the elements required for the manufacture of fuel cassettes will be of Ukrainian production,” said NNEGC CEO Petro Kotin in the Energo Live program on the We-Ukraine TV channel.
As reported, cooperation between Energoatom and Westinghouse on the production of nuclear fuel began in the summer of 2018 when the American partner began qualifying one of NNEGC’s separate divisions as a supplier of fuel assemblies for the TVS-WR. In 2019-2020, work was organized to produce them for fuel assemblies of Westinghouse Electric Sweden.
In April 2022, the first batch of head components was manufactured and sent to Westinghouse for qualification.
In the summer of 2023, the Swedish regulator SSM granted an export license as part of the project to qualify NNEGC Energoatom as a supplier of nuclear fuel components manufactured in Ukraine using modern Western technologies.
NAEK Energoatom and Kyivzelenstroy in October became the biggest violators of the localization law, having purchased a total of more than UAH 20 million worth of machine-building goods from foreign manufacturers, Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Development Dmytro Kisilevskyy said with reference to the monitoring of public procurement by the analytical center CMD Ukraine.
“It is impossible not to note the cynicism with which the heads of some state enterprises steal from the Ukrainian state. “Energoatom” directly in the title of the tender as the subject of purchase specifies the Turkish international bus ”AR-Temsa Prestij SX or equivalent.” Can you imagine that, for example, the mayor’s office of Istanbul indicated “Etalon bus of Chernihiv automobile plant or equivalent” as the subject of purchase in its tender?” – wondered the MP on his Facebook page.
He added that “Kyivzelenstroy” also specified a Turkish backhoe loader TLB 870 Mecalak or equivalent as the subject of the purchase.
Kisilevskyy reminded that Ukrainian manufacturers can 100% meet the needs of Ukrainian state institutions and communities, in particular, in buses or excavators.
The parliamentarian once again emphasized that he was sending information about the eight purchases with the most gross violations to the Ministry of Economy and the State Audit Service for response.
Among the eight biggest violators of the localization legislation are the State Enterprise “Ukraine”, which purchased a Turkish bus for UAH 7.15 million, a village council in Dnipropetrovsk region, which bought a Chinese bus JAC Sunray for UAH 1.85 million, as well as other local companies with purchases of a Turkish diesel generator for UAH 1.09 million and a Chinese tractor for UAH 0.62 million.
According to the monitoring data CMD Ukraine, cited by the MP, in October in “Prozorro” published information about 810 purchases of engineering goods worth 10 billion UAH, which are subject to the requirement of localization, with violation of the requirement revealed in 151 tenders (18.6%).
The legislation on localization in 2024 requires in public procurement of machine-building products to contain at least 20% of the component produced in Ukraine. At the same time, new rules for keeping the Register of localized goods have been in force since July 2.
State enterprise NAEK Energoatom (Kiev) on November 20 announced a tender for compulsory insurance of motor liability of owners of land vehicles (MTPL).
As reported in the Prozorro electronic public procurement system, the total expected cost is UAH 111.1 thousand.
The deadline for submitting tender documents is November 28.
American Holtec International has invited Energoatom specialists to join the project team that will work on the deployment of the SMR-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at the Palisades NPP site in the United States.
This was announced by Energoatom with reference to Holtec President and CEO Chris Singh on its Telegram channel on Wednesday.
“Participation of Energoatom representatives at the stages of construction, testing and commissioning of SMR at the Palisades NPP site (USA) will allow the company to gain experience for further implementation of this technology in Ukraine,” the NNEGC noted.
According to Energoatom CEO Petro Kotin, the invitation of the company’s specialists to the Holtec project team is another evidence of the high confidence in Ukraine and Energoatom from strategic partners.
“We are pleased to receive this invitation, which demonstrates not only support in this difficult time for the country, but also recognizes the high professionalism and competence of our nuclear scientists,” he emphasized.
Earlier, Holtec received a $1.52 billion loan from the US Department of Energy to restart the Palisades NPP, with two SMR-300 reactors planned to be deployed at the plant.
As reported, Energoatom and Holtec have implemented a project for the construction and commissioning of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility in Ukraine (CSFSF).
The companies also reached an agreement on the implementation of two large-scale projects in Ukraine: the construction of a plant for the production of SMR components and the construction of a plant for the production of components for the Centralized SFSF, which have been produced in the United States until now.
NNEGC Energoatom has connected a 1000 MW nuclear power unit to the Ukrainian power grid 12 days ahead of schedule, the company said.
“On October 1, after scheduled preventive maintenance, Energoatom specialists successfully connected a power unit of one of the nuclear power plants to the grid. The power is being ramped up. Thanks to the high-quality work of nuclear engineers, the unit was brought out of repair 12 days ahead of schedule,” the company said in a telegram on Tuesday.
It added that after the unit reaches full capacity, the power system will have plus 1000 MW of capacity.
“The repair campaign is entering the home stretch and by the start of the outage, all nine units located in the government-controlled territory will be ready to operate during the most difficult months. I thank the team for their excellent work in difficult conditions,” Energoatom CEO Petro Kotin said in a statement, emphasizing that the work is being performed efficiently and ahead of schedule.
As reported, after the occupation of the 6 GW Zaporizhzhya NPP on March 4, 2022, nine units at the South Ukrainian, Khmelnytsky and Rivne NPPs with a total installed capacity of about 7.8 GW have been operating in the Ukrainian power system.
