The Bill (Reg. No.5050) submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine determins basic principles as to placement, design and construction of a central storage facility for spent nuclear fuel discharged form VVER-type reactors of the domestic nuclear power stations. In particular it envisages placement of a central storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on the territory between former villages of Stara Krasnytsia, Butiakivka, Chystohalivka and Stepanka of Kyiv region that sustained radioactive contamination after Chornobyl disaster.
During the sitting of the Committee it was declared that according to the Power Strategy of Ukraine for the period till year2030 the formation of a central storage facility of spent nuclear fuel of VVER-440 and VVER-1000 types reactors of the domestic nuclear power stations. The members of the Committee drew attention to the advantages of the storage of spent nuclear fuel on the domestic territory instead of storing it beyond the territory of Ukraine with the prospective return of highly radioactive wastes.
According to the Members of the Committee the adoption of the Bill enables strengthening of the power safety of domestic nuclear power stations, save funds at the expense of rejection from the storage and processing of nuclear wastes on the territory of Russian Federation.