KYIV, March 18 – Ukraine's state-owned nuclear energy company, Energoatom, is in the process of finalizing an agreement to purchase reactor vessels from Bulgaria for the completion of Units 3 and 4 at the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The company plans to secure loan financing for this acquisition, Vice President Hartmut Jakob announced.

"We are working on signing the agreement for the purchase of equipment from Bulgaria for Khmelnytsky NPP Units 3 and 4. Once we have results, we will provide an update. We are considering loan financing for this purchase and do not plan to use depreciation funds, as those are allocated for other purposes," Jakob stated during a meeting of the parliamentary working group reviewing Energoatom's financial and economic activities. The session was streamed live on the Facebook page of Oleksiy Kucherenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada's Energy Committee.