Ukraine said that there is a necessity to further develop Ukraine’s cooperation with the US in the nuclear energy sector in the area of nuclear plants’ safety enhancement, extending life of existing reactors, nuclear fuel supplies and building storage facilities for the depleted fuel.
Ukraine is interested to continue implementation of the International Nuclear Safety Program, the ten-year long (1993-2003) US Department of Energy initiative in safety improvement of nuclear power plants built in the Soviet time.
Both the countries have also signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoU) in the field of shale gas exploration in Ukraine and have discussed the ways to diversify Ukrainian energy production.
The issues of the Ukrainian energy sources diversification such as LNG-terminal construction and exhausted gas fields rehabilitation were also discussed during the second session of a Ukrainian-American working group on energy security.
Both Ukrainian and the US governments plan to implement projects aimed at rehabilitation of the exhausted gas fields in Ukraine.
Additionally, Ukraine hopes to diversify the supply of liquefied natural gas from North Africa, Middle East and Azerbaijan.
