On January 17, 2018, Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine Hryhoriy Plachkov visited Chernobyl NPP.
During the familiarization visit Mr Plachkov paid the special attention to the completion of construction of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility No. 2 (ISF-2). The most part of the facility equipment is at the stage of the comprehensive testing and it is planned to perform the "hot" tests in 2018.
At ISF-2 construction site the Chief Engineer of the Safety Improvement Project Andrii Savin and the representatives of the General Contractor HOLTEC International familiarized the guest with the work progress and future plans.
After that the delegation, accompanied by top managers of ChNPP and Shelter Implementation Plan Project Management Unit performed a technical tour inside the New Safe Confinement.
The last point of the visit to ChNPP was Unit 1 Turbine Hall, where it is planned to arrange the temporary storage for high-level waste which will be generated during the implementation of the Shelter Object transformation activity.
It will be recalled that Hryhoriy Plachkov was appointed as the Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine on October 25, 2017.
