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Chinese, Ukrainian firms sign cooperation agreement in civil nuclear energy

Xinhua, September 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Chinese company and two Ukrainian nuclear safety firms on Friday signed an agreement on cooperation in civil nuclear energy.

In accordance with the agreement, Qingdao Xianchu Group of east China's Shandong Province, and Ukraine's State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety and the Institute for Safety Problems at the National Academy of Sciences agreed to launch cooperation in such areas as scientific nuclear research and disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

"The main purpose of this agreement is an establishment of a joint research and technology institute to develop new technologies for nuclear power plants (NPP) decommissioning," said Chen Kun, chairman of Qingdao Xianchu Group, at a signing ceremony of the deal in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

The projected institute on NPP decommissioning, which will do research in the sphere of peaceful use of nuclear energy, will be built in China, said Chen, without giving the detail of the proposed project.

Victor Bozhko, head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, the supervisory body of the two Ukrainian entities, said that Ukraine is willing to share its experience with China in conducting nuclear safety projects while learning from China in the sphere of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Endit