Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Poland have already expressed their desire to build new nuclear power plants or reactivate the old, closed at the request of Brussels.The energy crisis in Central and Eastern Europe once again revealed the subtle lingering wounds of the EU, says Le Temps. Resumption of nuclear programs in countries of Eastern and Central Europe will be another source of tension in relations with Russia, consider these states as a natural market and has Third-generation reactors that are responsible, according to the Rosatom , the international safety requirements. Meanwhile, the EU has set a 20 per cent quota for imports of nuclear fuel non-European origin, are unacceptable to Rosatom . Rosatom actively seeks to establish contacts, in particular, with Ukraine, which became one of the rare investors who invested in the creation of an international uranium enrichment center in Angarsk, which plans to supply nuclear fuel to countries that denied access to uranium enrichment. But the main concern of Europe in the field of atomic energy program is the elimination of numerous nuclear power plants built three decades ago. Funds for the phasing out of nuclear reactors to provide the European Commission, and this is a very significant amount, because in 2030 it is closing 120 of 219 reactors. In doing so, according to the experts, and to the east, and west Europe left few nuclear engineers, and most of them – over 50 years.
