OREANDA-NEWS. August 22, 2011. The working trip of the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine of Yuriy Boyko to the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant (Yuzhnoukrainsk, Mykolaiv region) took place.

During visit to South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant Yuriy Boyko held meeting with participation of a management of profile departments of the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry, the chairmen of the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine Yuriy Nedashkovskyi, a management of the State inspection of nuclear regulation, general directors of the South-Ukrainian, Zaporizhya, Rivne and Khmelnitskyi nuclear power plants, a management of the state enterprises and scientific research institutes of nuclear power branch.

At meeting the indispensability of performance of programs of increase of a security and prolongation of timeframe of operation of power units of the atomic power station of Ukraine in view of events in the world, in particular - situations on nuclear power station "Fukushima-1" in Japan was noted.

Participants of meeting considered the issue on the order of the organization and performance of the profound extraordinary reassessment of power units of the atomic power stations of Ukraine (stress-tests). Also at meeting the information on performance of works on reception of proceeds of credit of the EBRD and The European Atomic Energy Community on performance of the Complex (summary) program on increase of a security was heard.

Thus Yuriy Boyko accented, that for actions on increase of security in nuclear branch of Ukraine is going to spend nearby 1 billion dollars, and for prolongation of timeframes of operation of the nuclear power stations it is necessary to speed up work on attraction of credit.

"Partially we shall involve significant credits for prolongation of timeframe of operation of all NPP, and this work should pass all time that we have effect in the middle of next year", - the Minister noted.

Discussing financial questions, Yuriy Boyko said that the size of salaries in branch significantly exceeded average indices, and the general financing of atomic engineering was carried out at a high level.

"The salary in atomic engineering almost in 2.5 times is more, than the average salary on the country and it is in 1.5 times more, than on energy branch ", - the Minister told.

Also during meeting heads of the South-Ukrainian and Zaporizhya NPP reported on realization of actions on prolongation of timeframe of operation of two power units of South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant and three power units Zaporizhya NPP.

Participants of meeting assured, that work on increase of a security and prolongation of timeframe of operation of power units of the NPP constantly was conducted and was on the control.

Experts IAEA estimated an operational and design security of three blocks of the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, inspected process of the reference with radioactive waste and the program of removal of power units from operation, having recognized their conformity to all world requirements.