Espoo Convention<\/a>, which aims to ensure there is consultation when one country’s plans might have an environmental impact beyond its borders.<\/p>\nDeputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine Vitaliy Kindrativ said at the start oif the meeting: “We are committed to an open dialogue, are ready to answer all questions from the Polish side, and look forward to constructive interaction.”<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian ministry said that during the meeting it “provided the necessary materials and clarifications to the Polish side’s questions, as a result of which the parties agreed to consider the expert consultations completed”.<\/p>\n
And Kindrativ said they were open to further dialogue and\u00a0“committed to constructive cooperation with Polish partners to ensure transparency, safety, and compliance with international environmental standards”.<\/p>\n
In April 2024 Ukraine officially notified Austria, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary about the project. The ministry says that all but Hungary have said they plan to participate in consultations.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has 15 reactors, capable of generating half its electricity, at four existing nuclear power plants, including the six-unit Zaporizhzhia plant which has been under Russian military control since early March 2022.<\/p>\n
The country has plans for at least nine Westinghouse AP1000 units, including the two new ones planned at Khmelnitsky.<\/p>\n
Khmelnitsky’s first reactor was connected to the grid in 1987, but work on three other reactors was halted in 1990, at a time when unit 3 was 75% complete. Work on\u00a0the second reactor restarted and it was\u00a0connected to the grid in 2004. There is an on-going\u00a0goal to complete units 3 and 4 – the two AP1000s would become\u00a0the fifth and six units at Khmelnitsky, which is located about 200 miles west of Kiev and about 140 miles from the border with Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks about any potential cross-border environmental impact issues from the proposed two AP1000 units at the Khmelnitsky Nuclear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-698219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115900573571636122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}