KIEV, Sept. 14 - The national nuclear energy generation company EnergoAtom is to sign a contract with the U.S. firm Holtec, which won an international tender to design and construct a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Ukraine.

"Pre-contract work is underway. We have prepared all the contract documents, including an investment agreement. We'll soon be ready to send the documents [to Holtec] for approval," EnergoAtom President Yuriy Nedashkivsky told journalists.