The new reactors would be installed at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in western Ukraine and provided with Russian-designed equipment that Kyiv wants to import from Bulgaria, Reuters reported, citing Petro Kotin, the head of nuclear firm Energoatom.
Kotin told Reuters in an interview last week that negotiations between Ukraine and Bulgaria for the purchase of this equipment were likely to conclude in June.
He added that Energoatom plans to build two more reactors at Khmelnytskyi based on American technology, and that the company would start pouring concrete for the two new units in early April.
Russia gained control of the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's largest nuclear power station, after launching its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to Reuters.
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Source: biznesalert.pl, Reuters