Five new-build units placed on hold

摘要

In the first four months of 2014, five new reactors, including two that were nearing startup, were placed on indefinite hold for a variety of political and economic - not technical - reasons. The continuing conflict between Ukraine and Russia was the immediate cause of the halt to all work at Khmelnitsky 3 and 4 in Ukraine. But since 2008, only paper assistance has been provided, a Ukrainian source told this magazine. There has been no money from Russia and Ukraine is not investing, especially in its current crisis. Almost no construction or installation work has been done since the early 1990s. Work came to a complete halt as the Russia-Ukraine conflict began, and the fate of the units is extremely uncertain. They may never be completed.