Ukraine
Ukraine is a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), being one of the 44 listed countries needed to sign and ratify for the CTBT to enter into force.
The first reactors to be built in Ukraine were at Chernobyl, where six Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy (RBMK, or "reactor (of) high power (of the) channel (type)" reactors were scheduled to operate. Only four reactors were ever completed, due to the accident at unit 4 in April 1986. The other reactors at the station were closed in 1991 (following an accident), 1996 and 2000.
Currently, there are fifteen reactors in operation, the most recently completed were the Khmelnitsky 2 and Rovno 4 reactors, which began operating in the summer of 2004. The completion of the project, along with so called 'post completion' upgrades, were part financed by the EBRD (€50 million) and Euratom (€100 million).
In July 2005 the Government announced plans to complete the remaining two reactors at Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant and eleven other reactors.
Read the profile on Ukraine from the Model Nuclear Inventory (pdf), produced by the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
