April 26, 2019, Volodymyr Groysman carried out a working visit to Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and Chornobyl NPP. The delegation accompanying Volodymyr Groysman during this visit included Mr. Ostap Semerak, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, the deputies of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mr. Hryhorii Plachkov, the SNRIU Head, Mr.Vitalii Petruk, the SAUEZM Head, Mr. Yuriy Nedashkovsky, SE NNEGC Energoatom President, Mr. Oleksandr Tereshchuk, the Head of Kyiv Region State Administration and Mr. Yurii Fomichev, Slavutych Mayor.
The Prime-Minister and the people that accompanied him paid the tribute to memory of the people, who eliminated the consequences of the accident at ChNPP, by laying the flowers at the foot of the monument to the Heroes of Chornobyl near Chornobyl NPP Administrative Building No.1.
Within the framework of the working visit the Prime-Minister went to the New Safe Confinement Process Building where recently the 72-hour comprehensive testing (field trial) of the first Commissioning Stage (CS-1) of NSC has been completed. The detailed information on the project progress was provided to him by the SSE ChNPP Acting Director Serhii Kalashnyk.
During a session with mass-media representatives Mr. V.Groysman emphasized: “It is necessary to say: “Thank you” to those who at the first minutes, hours and days and then as long as it was necessary mitigated the consequences of this tragedy. The task of any authorities is to ensure the cleanness of this area. And in fact we are the only government which have made everything possible to complete the NSSC project. We resumed the entire set of actions which had not been focused on for almost a decade by anybody from the authorities, the entire set of actions in order to ensure radiation safety. And today it is possible to say that the situation has been stabilized to the maximum possible extent – and for this purpose within the Exclusion Zone the state-of-the-art technologies have been implemented. And particularly, I want to express gratitude to all international partners. They, their technical, advisory and financial assistance enabled us to complete the confinement construction activities”.
According to the working trip programme Prime-Minister Volodymyr Groysman today visited also the site of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility, which is being built in Exclusion Zone, and Vector Complex.
