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The United States could take control of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine “with very little problem” if the appropriate political decision is made.
This was stated by US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, according to a Bloomberg article published on March 21.
“We’d bring high-end nuclear experts from the United States, and together [with local experts] wise decisions would be made,” Wright said on March 20 in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “America is full of expertise in this area.”
Wright mentioned that there has been no discussion yet about the possibility of US companies purchasing a facility like the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which Russia seized in March 2022.
“He [Trump] said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its US electricity and utility expertise,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a press statement on March 19. “American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.”
On March 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that all nuclear power plants belong to the people of Ukraine and they are not private property.
“If the Americans want to take the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the Russians, invest in it, and modernize it — that’s another conversation, and the question remains open. But ownership was not discussed with Trump,” Zelenskyy stated.
