By Prensa Latina,
Kiev : The use of faulty US nuclear fuel in Ukrainian electronuclear plants is a risk, explained an expert commenting on the agreement of US Westinghouse and the national Energoatom.
Nestor Schufrich, former minister of Emergency Situations and Protection of the Population Regarding Consequences of Chernobyl considered this step impossible without previous corresponding tests.
Also popular deputy to the Supreme Rada (Parliament) Schufrich expressed doubt on the agreement signed March 31 between the two specialized energy corporations, 24 hours before the arrival of President George W. Bush to Kiev.
Finland and the Czech Republic have Russian reactors working with light pressurized water as in the Ukraine, and an experience with Westinghouse that has demonstrated frequent faults, recalled the legislator for the Regional Andrei Kluyev Party.
Incompatibility of the equipment causes unsafe function of heat generators from the US company, he warned the parliament.
The Voice of Russia radion reported that Kiev would be affected both economically and environmentally because the Russian elements are cheaper and once usedáthe wasteáis removed, according to a signedáagreement.
For his part the vice-director of the Institute of World Economy International Relations of Russia Guennadi Chufrin, said that the agreement with Westinghouse corresponds to the political interests of president Victor Yuschenko and his group.
Chufrin said all their efforts point to the Ukraine substituting Russia and other Eurasian companies with others of Western origin.