The first section of concrete has been laid as part of a ceremony to mark the official start of construction of Units 5 and 6 at the Khmelnitski nuclear power station in northwest Ukraine.
State nuclear operator Energoatom said in a statement that the two units would be the first to be built in the country using US-based Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurised water reactor (PWR) nuclear plant technology.
In August 2021 Energoatom and Westinghouse signed a memorandum on the construction of five power units in Ukraine using AP1000 technology.
In June 2022 they signed further agreements related to increasing the number of units from five to nine, although not all would be at Khmelnitski.