KIEV, May 31 ??“ Energoatom, the national nuclear power generator, plans to make more than $5.5 billion in investment during the next nine years, Mykyta Kostiantynov, Energoatom??™s first vice president for economic policy and corporate development, said.

"Energoatom's total needs for the next five years are $2.5 billion, and for the following four years another $3 billion," he said during a Ukrainian-Russian investment forum covered by Interfax-Ukraine.