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Friday, July 20, 2018
 
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Westinghouse Electric Company announced yesterday that unit 3 of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant has been loaded with a full core of its VVER-1000 fuel. The unit, near Yuzhnoukrainsk in the Mykolaiv province of Ukraine, thus becomes the first VVER-1000 reactor anywhere to operate with fuel assemblies not supplied by Russia.
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The company supplies fuel to six of Ukraine's 15 nuclear power reactors, which from 2021 will increase to seven. The 15 reactors - at Zaporozhe, Rovno, South Ukraine and Khmelnitsky - are all operated by state-run Energoatom. They include 13 VVER-1000s and two VVER-440s with a total capacity of 13,835 MWe. [...] 163 of Westinghouse's TVS-WR fuel assemblies had been loaded into South Ukraine 3
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Ukraine's policy of nuclear fuel diversification originated in 2000 [...] was implemented in two stages, he said. The first was in 2005, when six pilot Westinghouse fuel assemblies were loaded into South Ukraine 3. The second was in 2010, when 42 Westinghouse fuel assemblies were loaded into the core of the unit.
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http://world-nuclear-news.org/UF-South-Ukraine-3-fully-loaded-with-Westinghouse-fuel-20071801.html

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