On December 14, a delegation of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine headed by the First Deputy Minister Mr Oleksandr Krasnolutskiy visited the ChNPP industrial site.

Representatives of the Ministry, the managers of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management and Exclusion Zone enterprises laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of the Chornobyl disaster established near the Administrative building of the Chornobyl NPP.

After the ceremony of honouring the liquidators of the Chornobyl accident, Mr Krasnolutskiy and Acting Head of the SAUEZM Andrii Tymchuk personally presented departmental awards to the Chornobyl NPP personnel who were on rotation today.

The following persons were awarded diplomas of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine:
1. Oleksandr Minazov — shift supervisor of the Nuclear Power Plant shop, Radiation Safety Shop
2. Olexander Kolomiets — vehicles driver, transport shop
3. Valerii Pyroh — 1-st Category Process Engineer, Radioactive Waste Management Shop.

SAUEZM commendations were awarded to:
1. Valerii Yushchenko — locomotive driver, Spent Fuel Management Shop
2. Serhii Vinitsyn — 1-st Group foreman, Mechanical Repair Shop
3. Valentyn Svyrydenko — Hot Cell 6-th Group operator, Spent Fuel Management Shop.

In total, 20 specialists of the Chornobyl NPP received signs of respect and gratitude.

For information
The Day of Honouring the Participants of the Chornobyl Accident Consequences Liquidation is celebrated on 14 December because it was on this day in 1986 that the State Commission announced that the Shelter object had been commissioned. About 90,000 people worked were involved in the construction of the facility. It was constructed within a record-breaking time of 206 days.