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UKRAINE BUYS NUCLEAR FUEL WORTH $389 MLN IN 10M

21 December , 2016  

KYIV. Dec 21 (Interfax) – Ukraine bought nuclear fuel worth a total of $388.808 million in January-October 2016.

The State Statistics Service said that during the period, Russian fuel worth $288.217 million and fuel produced in Sweden for $100.591 million was bought for Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

Thus, the share of nuclear fuel purchases from Russia’s TVEL in value for the first 10 months was 74.1% and from Westinghouse (Sweden) it was 25.9%.

Ukraine purchased nuclear fuel for a total of $643.570 million in 2015: it bought $610.883 million worth from Russia and $32.688 million from Sweden.