KIEV, May 25 – State-run EnergoAtom is holding consultations with Russia's Rosatom, Canada's AECL, Korea's KEPCO, France's AREVA, and U.S.-based Westinghouse to choose a standard design for the reactors of new nuclear power facilities in the country, EnergoAtom First Vice President and technical director Ivan Foltov announced this at the 18th international conference on nuclear engineering (ICONE18) in Xi'an (China) on May 17-20.

"Prior to the announcement of a tender to buy an engineering project, the company will hold consultations with other producer companies," he said.

EnergoAtom noted that the further construction of new and substituting facilities requires the selection of a standard design of a nuclear power unit.