Yuri Nedashkovsky, President of Energoatom, tells Interfax-Ukraine that he does not see any risk that Russia will stop enriching uranium from Ukraine’s VostGOK mines in Dnipropetrovsk.

Yuri Nedashkovsky, President of Energoatom, tells Interfax-Ukraine that he does not see any risk that Russia will stop enriching uranium from Ukraine’s VostGOK mines in Dnipropetrovsk. The company is on the Kremlin’s new Ukraine sanctions list. Enriched uranium fuels Ukraine’s 15 nuclear reactors, source of half of Ukraine’s electricity. Last year, President Poroshenko promised in Washington to phase out imports of nuclear fuel from Russia, opting to import from Westinghouse Electric Sweden. But six months later, in a new Energoatom contract, Westinghouse was allotted only one additional reactor, meaning that Russia’s Rosatom is to supply 54% percent Ukraine’s nuclear fuel through 2025.