UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-WAR-NUCLEAR-ENERGY

(From L) President and Chief Executive Officer of Westinghouse Electric Company Patrick Fragman, Ukrainian Minister of Energy German Galushchenko and President of Energoatom Petro Kotin shake hands after the signing of new bilateral agreements during an event to mark the first loading of Westinghouse nuclear fuel into the VVER-440 reactors in front of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant, in Varash, Rivne region, on September 10, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Rivne nuclear power plant in Ukraine became the first Soviet-built plant to receive US fuel for VVER-440 reactors, from Westinghouse Electric plant in Vasteros, Sweden, produced jointly with Energoatom, Ukraine's national nuclear energy company. The fuel was previously only produced by Russia's TVEL Fuel Company. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) (Photo by ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images)