Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has removed National Commission for State Energy Regulation chairman Serhiy Titenko from office, the president's website said Wednesday.
"To remove Serhiy Titenko from the post of the Chairman of the National Commission for State Energy Regulation," the document published on the website said.
Currently, nuclear power plants generate about 47 percent of Ukraine’s electric power, the rest is produced by thermal power stations by burning gas and coal, as well as by hydroelectric power stations and green power.
Gas shortages and a halt in work at 80 percent of Donbas mines have led to deficit of energy and, as a consequence, electricity.
The dual-use nature of nuclear technology consisting in the potential for its application equally in peaceful and military sphere is the basic contradiction for the existing nuclear nonproliferation regime and comprehensive development of the nuclear power and nuclear fuel cycle.
Jerry Hopwood
We are currently working with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on this approach, which was submitted in response to their February 2012 call for alternative proposals. We appreciate that the UK is in the early stages of their policy development activities and are pleased to be involved in such important work.
Joint Plan of Action
The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran's nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek or develop any nuclear weapons.