MOSCOW, Aug 29Chris Singh, CEO of the American energy company Holtec International, said the company is deeply involved in Ukraine's nuclear program and continues to provide critical support to the company's Ukrainian Energoatom in storing nuclear waste. Ukrainian state-owned Energoatom is the operator of four operating nuclear power plants. The structure includes Zaporozhye, Rivne, South Ukrainian and Khmelnytsky NPPs. Based in the US, Holtec International specializes in equipment for the energy industry, including the manufacture of equipment for spent nuclear fuel.The US has said it does not know where the projectiles are coming from at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant»Our company is deeply involved in the nuclear program in Ukraine … Now we continue to support Energoatom so that the country can ensure the continued operation of its nuclear power plants and the storage of spent fuel at its nuclear power plants, since the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, which Energoatom built with our help, is too close to the border with Belarus,» Singh was quoted as saying by Ukrinform. to store part of the spent fuel until the cessation of hostilities. Singh noted that Holtec has been operating in Ukraine since 2003, the main customer of which was and remains NNEGC Energoatom. Starting from February 24, as he noted, Holtec continues to provide critical support to the Ukrainian company «Energoatom» was delivered equipment worth a million dollars not through the Black Sea, but through Turkey and a «long journey» by Poland, while Holtec provided transportation and insurance, » — he added, without specifying the details of such delivery.
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