Energoatom director confirms EBRD money will support nuclear lifespan expansion
July 22, 2011
The “Ukrainian NPP Safety Upgrade Package Program” currently under consideration for financing by the EBRD, will enable the lifespan expansion of old Soviet-time nuclear reactors, confirmed Gennady Sazonov, project and investment director of the production company Atomproektinzhynirynh, speaking during the first public consultations on the draft ecological assessment of the programme that was held in Kiev early this week.
EU verhindert Atomausstieg in der Ukraine Atomstrom für Europa
July 5, 2011
Die EU finanziert Hochspannungsleitungen in der Ukraine – und verhindert dort den Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie. Auch gelangt so billiger Atomstrom aus der Ukraine in die EU.
EU finances scrap reactors
June 29, 2011
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Are safety upgrades and lifetime extensions synonyms in the Ukrainian nuclear sector?
May 15, 2011
In November 2010 the EBRD, together with the European Union, announced its involvement in the EUR 1.2 billion Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) safety upgrade project for Ukraine. While safety upgrades at first appear a positive initiative, this project makes sense only in the context of NPP lifetime extensions, otherwise there is no reason to finance costly upgrades for facilities that will anyway close in a couple of years. And though the project promoter clearly links these safety upgrades with lifetime extensions, the EBRD is reticent to do so.
Ukrainian transmission lines – a vehicle for dirty electricity to the EU
May 15, 2011
The EBRD is and has been involved in a number of high voltage electricity transmission lines in Ukraine that eventually would lay the technical groundwork to export nuclear and coal-based electricity to the EU. In the Ukrainian electricity transmission field, the EBRD should focus its efforts on utilising the massive potential to increase the reliability and efficiency of Ukraine’s energy system through the modernisation of existing grid, especially low-voltage local grid below 110kV where power losses now are two times higher than average in the EU.
If fences make good neighbours, what about nuclear energy? How Ukraine’s nuclear future ties into Europe’s energy security strategy
April 26, 2011
In 2010 Ukraine joined the European Energy Community to integrate into the European electricity and gas markets. The Ukrainian government is looking to the EU and international financial institutions to sponsor a warily nuclear-intensive, export-oriented energy program.
Ignoring Chernobyl’s lessons – How EU ‘Energy Security’ expands nuclear energy in Ukraine
April 26, 2011
As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and against the backdrop of the threat from Fukushima’s nuclear facilities, our study reveals that the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are indirectly supporting lifetime extensions of old Ukrainian nuclear reactors as a means to secure ‘cheap’ Ukrainian electricity exports to the EU Member States.
Ignoring Chernobyl lessons: How EU ‘energy security’ expands nuclear industry in Ukraine
April 26, 2011
Kiev — On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, while the world still struggles with the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, CEE Bankwatch Network issues a startling report showing how plans of the Ukrainian government to build 22 new nuclear reactors and extend the lifetime of old Soviet reactors are indirectly supported with European public money as part of the long-term EU energy security strategy.
Leaders tell EU neighbours to stress-test nuclear plants
April 19, 2011
EU leaders have called on neighbouring states including Russia and Ukraine to carry out ‘stress tests’ on their nuclear plants.
Don’t turn Ukraine into a nuclear energy source for the European Union!
March 29, 2011
Bankwatch member group National Ecological Centre of Ukraine is asking the European Investment Bank (EIB) on inaugurating its Kiev office March 25 not to support nuclear development in Ukraine .
