The Ukraine has received a 42 million dollar loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to improve safety at two new nuclear reactors in the country which are to enter service by the end of the year, the EBRD said Tuesday.The European Community was to provide a further 83 million dollars as part of the project which also aims improve security at the country's 13 other reactors, EBRD spokesman Anton Ossov here said.
The Ukraine accepted to close the Chernobyl power plant, where one of the worst nuclear accidents ever occured in 1996, in exchange for international aid to build new reactors.
But the EBRD said that "this financing is no longer under consideration".
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