Using the dry storage technology of Holtec International, a Florida-based firm, the facility near Chornobyl, in northern Kyiv region, to take the fuel by rail from nine commercial reactors in three power plants – Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, and Yuzhnukrainska in Mykolaiv. Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe with six reactors at 5,700 mw capacity, has stored its spent fuel on site with dry storage since 2001.
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