company:energoatom

Yatsenyuk ally says he will resign from parliament amid corruption scandal
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/kyiv-post-plus/yatsenyuk-ally-says-he-will-resign-from-parliament-amid-corruption-scandal

Mykola Martynenko, an ally of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said on Nov. 30 that he had submitted his resignation as a member of the Verkhovna Rada.

The decision comes amid a high-profile corruption scandal around Martynenko.

Swiss and Czech prosecutors are investigating Martynenko on suspicion of accepting 30 million Swiss francs from Czech engineering firm Skoda for giving it a contract to supply equipment to state-owned nuclear power firm Energoatom.

Last week Sergii Leshchenko, a lawmaker from President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc, published documents from Swiss prosecutors that detail the corruption accusations and ask for help from Ukrainian prosecutors, assistance that evidently was not forthcoming.

Ukrainian authorities have shown no interest in investigating Martynenko, however.

“Given that attacks against me are also attacks against the Cabinet and the authorities in general, I submit my resignation as a lawmaker and voluntarily renounce my parliamentary immunity,” Martynenko, a member of Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front faction and head of the Verkhovna Rada’s fuel and energy committee, said on the Free Speech talk show on the ICTV television channel.

He urged parliament to vote on the issue next week, possibly on Dec. 10.

France to supply Ukraine with nuclear fuel -
▻http://www.spyghana.com/france-supply-ukraine-nuclear-fuel

Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom said Friday that it has signed an agreement with French energy conglomerate AREVA on supplies of enriched uranium for Ukraine’s nuclear reactors.
“This contract is a real step towards diversification of supplies of nuclear materials for Ukrainian nuclear power plants,” Yuri Nedashkovsky, the head of Energoatom, was quoted by the company’s press service as saying.
AREVA won the tender to supply Ukraine with nuclear fuel because it has “minimized the risks for Energoatom and offered attractive pricing policy”, Energoatom’s press service said in a statement, without disclosing details and timelines of the contract.
Currently, Ukraine imports enriched uranium from the Russian state-owned fuel group TVEL and the U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Company.
Ukraine, where nuclear energy accounts for over half of power generation, heavily depends on nuclear fuel for its 15 reactors in four nuclear power plants. Enditem

Source: Xinhua

Ukraine’s govenment decides to liquidate Energy Company of Ukraine
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/ukraines-govenment-decides-to-liquidate-energy-company-of-ukraine-363838.h

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has decided to liquidate national joint-stock company Energy Company of Ukraine.

#À_la_soupe !

Energy Company of Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Company_of_Ukraine

Along with other state companies like Energoatom and Ukrenerho, Energy Company of Ukraine has produced electricity for Ukraine and abroad. Until 2010, the company had total installed power generation capacities of 29,669.7 MW which corresponded to 56% of installed capacity of Ukrainian power stations.

30 000 MW, soit environ 1/4 de la puissance installée en France.
110 000 salariés

Comme le dit l’encadré WP

Defunct 4 September 2014

Energoatom plans to master reactor maneuvering by 2017
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/energoatom-plans-to-master-reactor-maneuvering-by-2017-351433.html

National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom plans to master reactor maneuvering with daily unloading to 75 percent of nominal capacity by 2017, Energoatom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky has told reporters.

Brève intrigante/inquiétante…

U.S. moves in on Russia’s nuclear energy turf in Ukraine
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/us-moves-in-on-russias-nuclear-energy-turf-in-ukraine-345793.html

Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia subsided yet again this month when state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom on April 11 concluded a deal with America’s Westinghouse to supply fuel rods until 2020. The agreement came more than two weeks before Ukraine signed a memorandum with Slovakia for the supply of up to 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year to replace Russian blue fuel imports. The deal also comes on the heels of a scandal involving dented rods, competing interests and conflicting evidence.

L’accord a été signé le 11/04, le lendemain de son annonce comme probable ►http://seenthis.net/messages/246030 (avec les réserves de Rosatom)
L’accord sur le gaz avec la Slovaquie, c’était il y a 3 jours ►http://seenthis.net/messages/252000

Les crayons de combustible se déformaient dans les assemblages entrainant des risques pour . Pour Westinghouse, c’étaient les russes, pour TVEL les états-uniens. En fait, les deux !…

According to Forbes, in April 2012, after all rods were removed from an SUNPP reactor following a scheduled period of use, plant technicians discovered that in fact both the American and Russian rods had suffered dents and scratches to their containment structures, which threatened the integrity of the radioactive material inside. Nevertheless, the chief inspector of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate Michael Gashev recommended to an Energoatom commission that it only forbid the use of American rods.

L’accord prévoit un test de validation avant extension de l’utilisation du combustible provenant de Westinghouse.

As per the amended contract, in December 2014-January 2015 during scheduled maintenance the first batch of the modified rods will be loaded into the third unit of the SUNPP for a test period to collect data for approval by the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate. If all goes well, the rods can then enter regular usage.

Néanmoins, la coopération avec la Russie dans le domaine de l’énergie nucléaire se poursuit. Et Rosatom espère participer à la privatisation de Turboatom reportée pour les raisons que l’on sait…

Furthermore, Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom is interested in privatizing Turboatom, a highly profitable Kharkiv-based producer of turbines for nuclear power plants. Privatization was expected to happen this year, though it was postponed due to political instability in the country and thus far remains unclear.