The Chornobyl NPP has received a Certificate of the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate of Ukraine testifying the compliance of the completed facility “New Safe Confinement (NSC). Commissioning Stage (CS-1). License Package (LP-5). Design “Main Structure and Main Cranes System” with the design documentation and confirming it operational readiness.
Obtaining the certificate has become the culmination of many years of hard work of Ukraine and the international community to implement the project of transforming the Shelter into an environmentally safe system, which became possible only through support of more than 40 contributing countries and donors of the Chornobyl Shelter Fund. Completion of work in the scope of the License Package 5 is a demonstration of modern technical capabilities, since the Arch is the largest of all built mobile land structures of 165 m in length, 110 m in height, 260 m in width and a total weight of 36,200 tons.
Since August 17, the personnel of JV Novarka perform the studies of operating ventilation systems of the main capacity and annular space of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) in different modes of equipment operation.
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Three-days expert mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency at Chornobyl NPP, organized within the framework of the Technical Cooperation Project UKR9038 "Support to Nuclear Power Units decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management at Chornobyl NPP site and within the Exclusion zone" was completed on July 26.
On July 24 and 25, Mr Christophe Xerri, Director of the IAEA Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology undertook a familiarization visit to the Chernobyl NPP site.