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From Bankwatch Network-Bankwatch.org:
“Operations suspended at one Ukrainian nuclear unit, as wider safety doubts persist Bankwatch Mail, May 14, 2015

Citing 33 safety issue failings, at the end of April Ukraine’s nuclear regulator took the decision to suspend operations at Unit 2 of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant by a May 12 deadline, the date marking the end of the plant’s design lifetime. Under the terms of the Ukrainian State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate Council’s decision, should the state-owned nuclear energy operator Energoatom wish to resume the unit’s operations beyond its design lifetime it will have to implement all necessary measures by May 2017.

Yet the same Unit 2 reactor remains part of Ukraine’s energy arithmetic for this year’s winter period. As the Ukrainian government has no ‘plan B’, Bankwatch member group the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU) is concerned that both the operator and the regulator are…