New power units will be built at the Khmelnytsky NPP using American AP1000® technology? The Cabinet of Ministers adopted the corresponding order, giving start to the development of technical documentation..

The government emphasized that this decision ended the era of creating nuclear power generation using Soviet technology..

“The construction of the AP1000® reactors by the American company Westinghouse in Ukraine is a powerful point in completing cooperation with Russia in the field of nuclear energy,” the report says..

Westinghouse's AP1000® reactor is a Generation III+ reactor that has significant advantages over the Soviet VVER-1000, especially in terms of safety, technical and economic performance..

The cost of one power unit is about $5 billion.

It is planned to complete the construction and launch two power units at the Khmelnytsky NPP in 2030-2032, although they emphasize that the timing may affect the course of hostilities.

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It should be noted that only two power units operate at the Khmelnytsky NPP. The construction of two more - the third and fourth - began in 1985, but was stopped a few years later..

On April 30, 2010, at a meeting of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine, a decision was made on cooperation between Rosatom and the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine on the construction of the third and fourth power units of the KhNPP, the construction was to be carried out by CJSC Atomstroyexport, however, due to the Russian aggression that began in 2014,.

In October last year, NNEGC Energoatom signed an agreement with Westinghouse electric on the joint construction of power units in Ukraine with a total cost of about $30 billion..