KYIV, Feb 26 – Ukraine plans to build a nuclear fuel fabrication plant at the site of the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP), announcing a tender to build and finance the project in autumn 2019, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said.

"In around six months we will announce a tender for the construction of the plant," he said at the Ukrainian Energy Forum in Kyiv organized by the Adam Smith Institute on Tuesday.