Slavutych (Kyiv region), October 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Sergiy Tigipko, a Ukrainian banker who has declared his intention to run for president, is against storing nuclear wastes from other countries at Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP).
He said this to journalists in the town of Slavutych after visiting the plant on Monday.
Tigipko said that nuclear wastes could be used as fuel in the future. “If we give away nuclear wastes for storing in another place, we will lose big money,” Tigipko said.
According to Tigipko, Ukraine has a thirty-kilometer zone where people do not live, so nuclear wastes could be stored there.
“We could store nuclear wastes from our nuclear plants here. I do not say about nuclear wastes from other countries. No way! There are enough nuclear wastes from our plants,” Tigipko said.
