In the period from 27th to 31st of August, SSE “Chornobyl NPP” is holding the workshop of the International Atomic Energy Agency focused on the end state of NPP decommissioning and material release from regulatory control.
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The workshop became a place for sharing the experience of the representatives from 9 countries of Central and Eastern Europe having the operating nuclear power plants or implementing the decommissioning projects, the representatives from the lead specific institutes of Ukraine and NAEC “Energoatom”. Among the participants, the experts from Chornobyl NPP take a special place, the NPP which became the first and remains the only one in Ukraine under decommissioning.
Commenting the workshop, Vladan Ljubenov, the IAEA officer, the expert in safe management of radioactive waste, emphasizes that currently a number of decommissioning projects is increasing across the globe and many of them are approaching to their completion. Therefore, the important thing is to share the experience, discuss approaches and problems related to determination of end state of the facilities and ways of its achievement.
“The Agency is a focal point that coordinates the activities worldwide and provides international standards and recommendations. For these particular topics, these standards that are now in place have been developed 10 to 15 years ago. In the meantime, quite a lot of experience and knowledge has been accumulated, and in this period we are starting revision of these standards. So, this particular event is considered as one of important sort of information for us in relation to these two topics which will be taken into account during the revision of international standards”, Vladan Ljubenov says.
On August 29, the participants visited the industrial site of ChNPP, in particular the facilities associated with decommissioning: turbine hall where the equipment is under dismantling, as well as the plants for solid and liquid radioactive waste management.
The workshop is held under the technical cooperation project RER9150 “Enhancing the capabilities for efficient implementation of the large current projects of decommissioning and waste management by minimizing the hazards based on initiatives and potential sinergies“.
