UKRAINE

摘要

Ukraine hopes that a long-term contract on the shipment of nuclear waste to Russia will soon be signed, the head of Ukraine's state-run nuclear company Energoatom says.rnThe current contract between Russia and Ukraine, which does not have its own nuclear waste storage facility, expires this year.rn"We are ready to sign base contracts even today, and I hope that we will sign them this week," Yury Nedashkovsky told journalists in Kiev.rnUkraine has asked the Russian government to reduce the fee that it charges countries exporting nuclear waste to Russia, which is designed to cover the costs of ecological damage.