YUZHNOUKRAINSK, May 27 – Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant intends in 2018 to completely load reactor three with fuel assemblies (163 assemblies) made by Westinghouse transnational company, Deputy Chief Engineer for Nuclear and Radiation Safety Dmytro Sokolov said.

"We would be the first who would completely load the active zone with U.S. fuel in 2018," he said at a roundtable devoted to the operation of Yuzhnoukrainsk.