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    In the period from 27th to 31st of August, SSE “Chornobyl NPP” is holding the workshop of the International Atomic Energy Agency focused on the end state of NPP decommissioning and material release from regulatory control.

    Read more: ChNPP Decommissioning

    The workshop became a place for sharing the experience of the representatives from 9 countries of Central and Eastern Europe having the operating nuclear power plants or implementing the decommissioning projects, the representatives from the lead specific institutes of Ukraine and NAEC “Energoatom”. Among the participants, the experts from Chornobyl NPP take a special place, the NPP which became the first and remains the only one in Ukraine under decommissioning.

    Commenting the workshop, Vladan Ljubenov, the IAEA officer, the expert in safe management of radioactive waste, emphasizes that currently a number of decommissioning projects is increasing across the globe and many of them are approaching to their completion. Therefore, the important thing is to share the experience, discuss approaches and problems related to determination of end state of the facilities and ways of its achievement.

    The Chornobyl NPP has received a Certificate of the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate of Ukraine testifying the compliance of the completed facility “New Safe Confinement (NSC). Commissioning Stage (CS-1). License Package (LP-5). Design “Main Structure and Main Cranes System” with the design documentation and confirming it operational readiness.

    Obtaining the certificate has become the culmination of many years of hard work of Ukraine and the international community to implement the project of transforming the Shelter into an environmentally safe system, which became possible only through support of more than 40 contributing countries and donors of the Chornobyl Shelter Fund. Completion of work in the scope of the License Package 5 is a demonstration of modern technical capabilities, since the Arch is the largest of all built mobile land structures of 165 m in length, 110 m in height, 260 m in width and a total weight of 36,200 tons.

    Since August 17, the personnel of JV Novarka perform the studies of operating ventilation systems of the main capacity and annular space of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) in different modes of equipment operation.

    This work is carried out in order to implement the first stage of the Technical Decision "On organization of the ventilation mode of the single NSC-SO complex for the period of ventilation system testing and trial operation of the first commissioning stage (CS-1) of NSC" within the contract for design, construction and commissioning of NSC.

    At this stage of ventilation system operation study, the radiation monitoring of radioactive emissions into the environment through ventilation stack of NSC is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Technical Decision. Also according to the requirements of the Technical Decision, the personnel of the Radiation Safety Shop of SSE ChNPP and the Service of JV Novarka perform additional radiation monitoring of the environment both within the space under the NSC Arch and within the area of ChNPP industrial site and beyond its boundaries.

    Dear colleagues!

    We invite you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Transformation of the Shelter Object into Ecologically Safe System: Challenges and Solutions", which will take place on November 27-28, 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    The conference goal is to choose promising scientifically and economically justified ways to resolve the problems of the Shelter Object transformation at the stage after New Safe Confinement commissioning.

    November 26, 2018 Сonference participants will have the opportunity to visit Chernobyl NPP's Facilities, namely the observation pavillion of the New Safe Confinement, space under the New Safe Confinement, Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant and Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management. The visit will be ogganized according to the requirements of the Procedure of Exclusion zone and Zone of unconditional (obligatory) resettlement visiting by citizens of Ukraine, foreign delegations and foreigners. Persons wishing to participate in a technical visit to Chernobyl NPP till November 1, 2018 shouls fill a special application form availiable at the Conference website www.sof2018.dazv.gov.uа and mark the item "participation in the technical visit" and act in accordance with instructions sent on your e-mail.

    Three-days expert mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency at Chornobyl NPP, organized within the framework of the Technical Cooperation Project UKR9038 "Support to Nuclear Power Units decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management at Chornobyl NPP site and within the Exclusion zone" was completed on July 26.

    The purpose of the mission is to review the Feasibility Study (FS) for creation and location of new facilities for radioactively contaminated materials management on compliance with IAEA standards.

    Significant volume of radioactive materials, namely, different categories and types of liquid and solid radwaste, radioactively contaminated soils, demolished concrete and metal structures and equipment, cables, as well as construction waste (garbage, fragments of concrete, reinforced concrete, metal constructions) is generated in process of ChNPP power units decommissioning and Shelter object transformation into environmentally safe system.

    1. Visit of IAEA Senior-Level Management
    2. RODOS — European system for decision-making support in case of radiation accidents
    3. To NOVARKA’s team / A l'équipe de NOVARKA
    4. Radioactive material theft prevention — task of drill at ChNPP

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