OUR nuclear her station Zaporozhye on South Ukrainewho was busy last year Russiastop using nuclear fuel produced at USA as soon as possible, a Russian official said today, citing the Russian news agency Interfax.

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, built mostly during Soviet times, initially used Russian nuclear fuel, but Ukraine gradually switched to Westinghouse fuel after the first conflict with Russia in 2014.

Last year, Russian forces seized the power plant during an invasion of parts of Ukraine, and it has since been at the center of a nuclear security crisis due to constant shelling near its facilities, which Kiev and Moscow blame each other for.

Renat Karshaa, adviser to the CEO of Rosenergoatom, a Russian energy company that has taken over the plant, told Interfax that it has been storing US-made fuel for about four years.

However, the Russian administration will seek to replace this fuel with Russian fuel as soon as possible, as it considers its own technologies to be more advanced, he said.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}