Workers pour concrete during preparatory activities before the construction of power units 5, 6 using the American Westinghouse technology at the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant near Ukrainian city of Khmelnytsky on April 11, 2024. — AFP picNETISHYN, Ukraine, Apr 13 — Ukraine has started constructing two US-designed reactors at a nuclear power plant in the west of the country following devastating Russian attacks on its energy network.
Guests at the ceremony included the head of Ukraine’s state nuclear operator, Energoatom, Petro Kotin; Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko; US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink and the CEO of US nuclear energy company Westinghouse, Patrick Fragman.Energoatom asked for the launch to be reported Saturday due to security concerns over Russian attacks.Advertisement
Khmelnytskyi power plant already has two functioning reactors. Its reactors 3 and 4 are partially built to a Soviet design.