KIEV, Aug. 5 – A centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility will be built using a $260 million credit agreement signed, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said.

"During a visit to the United States a $260 million credit agreement to build a dry spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Ukraine in the Chernobyl zone was signed," he said at a press conference on Thursday.

The minister did not disclose the details of the credit agreement.