At the Khmelnytsky NPP, two more power units are being prepared, already using American technology

At the Khmelnytsky NPP, preparations for the construction of two power units using the modern American AR 1000 Westinghouse technology have begun. This is reported in "Energoatom".

On April 11, 2024, Energoatom initiated a project to build power units of the Khmelnytsky NPP using the AP1000 Westinghouse technology.

In the presence of Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink, CEO of JSC NNEGC «Energoatom» Petro Kotin and CEO and President of Westinghouse Electric Company Patrick Fragman, the first cube of concrete of the Unit 5 of the Khmelnytsky NPP was laid (concreting of the drainage channel to ensure the stability of the dam as well as the construction of the infrastructure of power units).

Unit 5 at the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant will be the first power unit in Ukraine built using American AP1000 technology.

The head of Energoatom Petro Kotin, noted the epochal significance of that event for the development of national nuclear power industry and the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. He also thanked the American side for the high trust in Energoatom and fruitful cooperation in recent years.

«The Westinghouse company is our reliable strategic partner: both in the development and loading of alternative fuel into the VVER reactors, and in the creation of a fuel production line in Ukraine, in the construction of new power units using Westinghouse AP1000 technology. During the war, we have not stop, but on the contrary deepened and accelerated our cooperation. I am very grateful to Madam Ambassador for supporting our strategic cooperation with the Westinghouse company, as well as mentioning the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP in her speech. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe was, is, and will be our pride, and I am sure that it will be returned under the control of Ukraine. At the same time, thanks to the construction of the Khmelnytsky NPP Units 5 and 6, after the commissioning of two new Units 3 and 4 here at the Khmelnytsky NPP, the power of this plant will exceed the capacity of the ZNPP, and right here, on this site, there will be the largest nuclear power plant in Europe,» Peter Kotin stressed.