KIEV, April 24 – The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated a land plot of 45 hectares in the exclusion zone on the territory of Chernobyl nuclear power plant to build the central waste nuclear fuel storage facility, said Yuriy Nedashkovsky head of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom.

"Today a decision to allocate 45 hectares was made to execute the law on the placement of the central waste nuclear fuel storage facility," he told reporters after the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, April 23.

Nedashkovsky said that after the construction of the launch complex, which will be finished in late 2017, and the commissioning of the storage facility, waste nuclear fuel from three nuclear power plants: Khmelnytsky, Rivne and Yuzhnoukrainsk. U.S. Holtec International will build the facility, Nedashkovsky said.