The United States is working with Ukraine on a road map for its post-war energy system, which will include safe nuclear energy technology as well as renewables, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has said in an interview with Reuters.
“They (Ukrainians) are under assault and we have to help get them through this period of time, we’ve got to harden their existing assets,” Granholm told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of an annual Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation (P-TECC) conference in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
“We are planning with them for what does the Ukrainian grid of the future look like,” she said. “So it might involve micro-reactors. It might involve small modular reactors. It definitely will involve distributed generation of solar and wind coupled with batteries. So that work is being done now,” she added.
According to the energy secretary, new nuclear power plants can become part of the future energy grid if they are designed in a way that is secure. (Ukrinform)