On this day 20 years ago, Chornobyl NPP officially transformed from the power generating enterprise into the enterprise for decommissioning of power units, and got the status of a State Specialized Enterprise.

“The enterprise has been established to ensure all types of activity related to decommissioning of power units of Ukrainian nuclear power plants and to the transformation of the Shelter Object into an environmentally safe system,” – says the Charter of the enterprise about the objective of its activity.

Of course, SSE ChNPP is not involved in the decommissioning of all the Ukrainian nuclear power units; however the enterprise’s progress on its own site is worth to be acknowledged:

• Started operation of the new interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility (ISF-2). First 186 spent fuel assemblies have already been placed for storage, and the same will be happening to the other tens of thousands of the assemblies over the next 10-year period.

• Started pilot operation of the New Safe Confinement – a super-structure which has reduced the radiation level around the Shelter Object by 10 times, and in the end will allow dismantling the Shelter and transform it into an environmentally safe system.

• There are two plants for radioactive waste management being operated on the site, They are designed to prepare for disposal the liquid and solid radioactive waste which have been generated by ChNPP to date, and those to be produced in the future over the period of its decommissioning.

• ChNPP has successfully implemented over 30 international projects which helped to introduce international best practice in decommissioning and RAW management thanks to new equipment and machinery provided and through comprehensive assistance of international experts.