The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk made a working trip to the Chernobyl NPP on 9th July. The governmental delegation also included representatives of ministries and departments, as well as a Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for the Exclusion Zone Management.
Within the frame of preparation for the Assembly of Donors, the governmental delegation’s members visited a construction site of the “dry type” Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel (ISF-2), which is designed for long-term storage of ChNPP spent fuel, and an assembling area of the New Safe Confinement (NSC). The Prime Minister met and discussed the work progress with representatives of the major international companies, which are performing projects at the ChNPP industrial site.
In addition, Arseniy Yatsenyuk held a working meeting with representatives of the Chernobyl NPP management. Several issues, which are important for the Chernobyl NPP, were addressed at this meeting. In particular, the lack of SSE ChNPP funding in 2014, the compensation to the Pension Fund of Ukraine of actual costs for payment and delivery of pensions, the improvement of management system in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the activities devoted to the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl NPP accident (26th April 2016) and involvement of the world community into implementation of a final stage of the Shelter Object transformation into an environmentally safe system were of concern.
As Arseniy Yatsenyuk highlighted at the press briefing, the exclusion zone management system is actually deeply inefficient and required a complete reorganization. That is why a biosphere reserve and a state concern on managing spent fuel and radioactive waste of Ukrainian NPPs will be created within the exclusion zone by the 30th anniversary of the ChNPP accident. In this case the zone could become the economically independent and investment-attractive area.
A protocol resolution will be prepared based on the meeting results. It will be aimed to address the ChNPP problematic issues, as well as the exclusion zone reorganization.
