Ukraine has 14 nuclear power reactors in operation at five sites. In addition, two units are under construction. In 1997, Ukrainian nuclear power plants produced 47 percent of the country's electricity.

The Chornobyl Unit 4 accident in 1986 focused international attention on the safety of Ukraine's reactors. The one operating reactor at Chornobyl is Unit 3, an RBMK reactor. The other 13 operating reactors in the country are pressurized light-water reactors (11 VVER-1000s and two VVER 440/213s). The G-7 nations and the European Union are working with Ukraine under a Memorandum of Understanding to close the Chornobyl plant by the year 2000. At Chornobyl, DOE is involved in projects to upgrade equipment and safety procedures at operating Unit 3 and in rehabilitating and making the working conditions safer in the Shelter, which contains the destroyed Unit 4.

Ukraine's Key Nuclear Organizations

• Ministry for Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety - principal Ukrainian agency supporting development of Chornobyl Center.

• Nuclear Regulatory Administration - Ukrainian nuclear regulatory authority.

• Energoatom - utility under the Ministry of Energy responsible for all of Ukraine's nuclear power plants.

• Ukraine Academy of Sciences - parent organization of many scientific and technical institutes with nuclear-related functions.

• International Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (Kyiv, Ukraine) - research center and technical support organization for nuclear safety and decommissioning activities for Chornobyl NPP and Chornobyl Shelter, as well as for other NPPs in Ukraine.

• Slavutych Laboratory for International Research and Technology - primary technical branch of the Chornobyl Center.

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Vitaliy Tolstonogov
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-44-934-3109 or 380-44-934-3107
Fax: 380-44-792-5670

Unit	Reactor Model	Net Output	Initial Start	Status
1	RBMK-1000	925 MWe	8/1977	Shut Down 11/1996
2	RBMK-1000	950 MWe	5/1979	Shut Down 10/1991
3	RBMK-1000	925 MWe	6/1981	Operating
4	RBMK-1000	950 MWe	4/1984	Destroyed 4/1986

Khmelnytskyy Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Nikolai P. Dudchenko
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-38-3350 or 380-38-222-3797
Fax: 380-38-483-3360

Unit	Reactor Model	Net Output	Initial Start	Status
1	VVER-1000	950 MWe	12/1987	Operating
2	VVER-1000	950 MWe	Under Construction
3	VVER-1000	950 MWe	Under Construction
4	VVER-1000	950 MWe	Under Construction

Rivne Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Vladimir Korovkin
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-36-362-2360 or 380-36-363-5917
Fax: 380-36-362-2314

Unit	Reactor Model	Net Output	Initial Start	Status
1	VVER-400/213	361 MWe	12/1980	Operating
2	VVER-400/213	384 MWe	12/1981	Operating
3	VVER-1000	950 MWe	11/1986	Operating
4	VVER-1000	950 MWe	Under Construction

South Ukraine Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Yuriy L. Kovizhkin
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-51-365-0132
Fax: 380-51-362-1832

Unit	Reactor Model	Net Output	Initial Start	Status
1	VVER-1000	950 MWe	12/1982	Operating
2	VVER-1000	950 MWe	12/1984	Operating
3	VVER-1000	950 MWe	9/1989	Operating
4	VVER-1000	950 MWe	Under Construction

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Danko Biley
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-61-393-2272
Fax: 380-61-393-6927

Unit	Reactor Model	Net Output	Initial Start	Status
1	VVER-1000	950 MWe	11/1984	Operating
2	VVER-1000	950 MWe	6/1985	Operating
3	VVER-1000	950 MWe	12/1986	Operating
4	VVER-1000	950 MWe	12/1987	Operating
5	VVER-1000	950 MWe	6/1989	Operating
6	VVER-1000	950 MWe	10/1995	Operating