On 11^th of April 2013, the IAEA Delegation headed by Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA Deputy Director General, had a familiarization visit to industrial site of Chernobyl NPP. The Delegation stays in Ukraine on invitation of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine.

On the 9^th of April the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko officially visited the Chernobyl NPP site. He was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Dmytro Mormul, Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Volodymyr Kholosha and Kyiv Region Governor Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk.

The guests visited the construction site of Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2), as well as were familiarized with progress of works on equipment dismantling in a Turbine Hall of Power Unit No.1.

At the Shelter Object Observation Pavilion the SSE ChNPP General Director Igor Gramotkin familiarized the Vice Prime Minister and his attendants with the current state of Shelter Object and progress of works on the New Safe Confinement erection. After that the honourable guests visited the NSC construction site, where nowadays active works on assembling the Arch metal structures are underway.

In the course of the visit Mr. Yu.Boyko was interested in the issues of prospective development of the Chernobyl NPP site and possibility of its utilization in fuel and energy complex of Ukraine.

To meet the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On Permitting Activities Regarding Nuclear Energy Use”, on February 20, 2013, SSE ChNPP has obtained a license of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine to perform activity “Construction and Commissioning of Nuclear Facility (Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel ISF-2)” valid till February 20, 2018.
License No. ЕО 001002 was obtained instead of available one and enables to commence the second stage of activities, including supply of materials and equipment, construction and assembling works and precommissioning operations, as well as support to obtain a permit for ISF-2 commissioning. Completion of active phase of the contract activities is scheduled for 2015.

For reference: ISF-2 facility is designed for acceptance, preparation for storage and storage of spent fuel assemblies and spent additional absorbers accumulated at Chernobyl NPP. Its construction is funded from Nuclear Safety Account of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).