On July 22 Chornobyl NPP took part in a joint video meeting between the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (SAUEZM) and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI).
The meeting objective was to discuss the next steps of the Ukrainian and Korean sides to initiate a cooperative project within the Exclusion Zone and sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on technical cooperation in nuclear energy research and development works.
At this meeting the KAERI experts presented technologies to be tested during the first phase of the project at the end of 2020. This involves the concrete waste treatment technology and the foam decontamination technology. These technologies are experimental and the ChNPP site is to become their “testing field”.
The meeting resulted in a decision to sign the MoU between SAUEZM and KAERI in August this year, as well as to develop a technical documentation on implementing the first phase of the project together with the ChNPP.