KIEV, March 2 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a decree on the construction of a centralized storage facility for waste nuclear fuel from Water-Water Energetic Reactors (WWER) at domestic nuclear power plants.

Parliament passed on February 9 the law on the construction of the storage facility.

In order to reduce waste related to the transporting of spent nuclear fuel, in 2003 EnergoAtom announced an international tender to select a company to build a centralized dry waste storage area for spent nuclear fuel from Yuzhnoukrainsk, Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear plants (Zaporizhia NPP already has its own spent nuclear fuel storage facility on site).