On October 11, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of United States of America in Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch visited Chornobyl NPP with an informal visit. The main purpose of the visit was to obtain information about the state of New Safe Confinement (NSC) and Dry type Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2) construction projects implementation.
During the visit Marie Yovanovitch visited the NSC's observation pavilion, showing the great interest to the details of the Chornobyl disaster and overcoming the accident consequences at the Unit four. Deputy Chief Engineer of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Mr Alexander Novikov and SIP Project Management Unit Director Mr Oscar McNeil answered numerous questions from Mrs Ambassador.
The Projects process was discussed during the meeting between Mrs. Yovanovitch and representatives of the senior management of ChNPP and State Agency for the Exclusion Zone Management. ChNPP’s General Director Mr Igor Gramotkin specifically emphasized that the visit of Marie Yovanovitch to the industrial site, together with her family members is additional evidence that US has no doubts about safety improvement at the plant during the recent time and how much has been done by its personnel to overcome the accident 1986 consequences.
During the visit the guests also visited the Unit control panel, ISF-2 and Pripyat town.
