IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi visited Chornobyl NPP on 18 January.
Mr Grossi was accompanied by the top leadership of IAEA, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, senior management of SNRIU and SAEZM.
One of the objectives of the IAEA delegation’s visit in Ukraine was to establish the continued presence of IAEA at the Ukrainian NPPs, including Chornobyl site.
The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine with the involvement of SSTC NRS has conducted state review of nuclear and radiation safety for the ChNPP’s “Report on Results of Stage 3 of the Comprehensive Commissioning (‘hot’) Testing of the Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant (SRPP) of the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (ICSRM). The document was approved on 13 December.
Although approval of this document does not yet mean the completion of commissioning of Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant (SRPP), however, it shows significant progress Chornobyl NPP has achieved in this direction.
On 14th of December we mark the Day of Honoring the Liquidators of Consequences of the Chornobyl Accident. For the occasion, the Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine Mr Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, officials of the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, and officials and personnel of Chornobyl NPP paid tribute to the fallen liquidators by laying flowers on the Chornobyl Memorial near the ChNPP Administrative Building.
In addition, during his visit Mr Krasnolutskyi awarded the ChNPP workers that participated in liquidation of consequences of the Chornobyl Disaster and that have endured the occupation of the Chornobyl site by russian forces in February-March 2022 with honorary diplomas.
From November 22 to November 24, 2022, the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the IAEA) mission worked at Chornobyl NPP site.
The mission was held in the framework of Assistance Action Plan, the document developed and signed between Ukraine and the IAEA following the visit of the IAEA representatives to Ukrainian nuclear sites and to de-occupied Chornobyl NPP in April – June 2022.
The main purpose of the Plan is providing Ukraine with technical assistance and support in nuclear safety and security area. Now, it is the third IAEA mission at ChNPP. During the visit, ChNPP safety issues, in particular, physical protection, nuclear safety and radiation monitoring are investigated and discussed.
During 2-8 October, a team of veterinarians from the USA, Germany, Great Britain, and Ukraine were working on site of the Chornobyl NPP and in the Exclusion Zone. The purpose of their mission was implementation of the next stage of the Dogs of Chornobyl project led by the Clean Futures Fund, USA.
This project was initiated back in 2017 and aims to reduce the population of stray dogs naturally by sterilizing them, and thus create safer conditions for workers of the plant and the Exclusion Zone. Besides the sterilization, all dogs are subject to medical examination and vaccination.
“This campaign is focused on the dogs in the local zone around the Arch (the New Safe Confinement), where it’s been the most challenging to catch them.
September 26, 1977, the day of ChNPP Power Unit 1 start-up. The first of nuclear power plant four reactors began to work opening the way to nuclear power industry in Ukraine.
We remind that before the accident of April 26, 1986, there had been four power units with total electric power output of 4,000 Megawatt. ChNPP was the first nuclear power plant which started to work in Ukraine (1977) and the first one which commenced decommissioning (2000).
A series of trainings to maintain ChNPP personnel’s spent fuel handling skills is taking place on site of the plant.
During the training, staff of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Shop is practicing the performance of all the fuel handling operations on the real equipment using spent fuel dummies. These trainings are being passed by all operating shifts of the two storage facilities.
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