MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The EU countries, where Russia-designed nuclear power plants are used, are experiencing an increased political pressure explained through the necessity to reduce energy dependence on Russia, TVEL fuel company said in an annual 2015 report.
"There is a growing political pressure, the thesis of the necessity to reduce energy dependence on Russia and diversification of supply sources which can be used as means of restricting competition are being actively promoted," the report of TVEL, which is part of the state-owned Rosatom nuclear energy corporation, read.
Experts suggested earlier that there was a reasonable doubt that some European nuclear power plants designed using Soviet or Russian technologies would be able to operate without incidents on non-Russian nuclear fuel.