KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukraine should decide on the fate of waste nuclear fuel moved to Russia by 2018 and a related working group has been created to consider this, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

"Under the first agreements signed in 1993, this term [the start of the return nuclear waste] begins in 2018, the agreement was signed for 25 years," he said.

Demchyshyn said that the creation of the working group is required to start analyzing the return of waste nuclear fuel and the appropriateness of doing so.