KIEV, March 26 – The National Nuclear Power Generation Company EnergoAtom and the U.S. company Westinghouse will sign a contract on supplies of nuclear fuel to Ukrainian nuclear power plants on March 30, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

EnergoAtom and Westinghouse in 2000 launched a project on the certification of nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. company. The project will be summed up in 2013. If successful, Ukraine will have a potential U.S. alternative to Russia as a supplier of nuclear fuel.