KOLONTAYEVO (Moscow region), Oct. 21 - Ukraine has completed the first round of talks with Russian nuclear power plant builder Atomstroyexport on a project to build Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant's third and fourth reactors, and hopes that Russia will provide the bulk of the investments for the project, according to Yuriy Nedashkovsky, the head of Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator EnergoAtom.

He said Ukraine has completed the first stage of tender procedures and designated Russia's Atomstroyexport as a supplier of reactor facilities for the new power units.