A nuclear fuel production plant should be built in Ukraine by 2012

KIEV, January 11 (Itar-Tass) A nuclear fuel production plant should be built in Ukraine by 2012, Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said. “I am convinced that we will build a nuclear fuel production plant with all components and all supply enterprises,” the prime minister said at a meeting on the development of the nuclear industry on Monday. “We have already received Kazakhstan’s confirmation of Ukraine’s admission to the unified interstate uranium enrichment centre,” she said. Fuel and Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said Kazakhstan had given its consent to Ukraine’s participation in the international uranium enrichment centre at the end of last year. “Prior to that we received Russia’s consent. At the end of the year we received a note from Kazakhstan,” he said, adding, “We will not start completing all organizational procedures.” According to the government’s target program “Nuclear Fuel of Ukraine”, the construction of a nuclear fuel production plant should be completed in 2013.