KIEV, Aug. 17 – Ukraine needs to give serious thought to building a centralized storage facility for waste nuclear fuel since waste fuel from Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which is temporarily stored in the Russian Federation will start to come back from 2013, the Emergencies Ministry said.

"Starting from 2013, Ukraine should be taking the processed waste nuclear fuel back from Russia. To date, there is no repository where it could be safely stored in Ukraine. We need to speed up the construction of such facility at the Vector site," Acting Head of the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management Dmytro Bobrov said at a press conference in Kiev on Friday.