On June 13, ChNPP industrial site was visited by Eric Schmidt, an American businessman who is also known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and until 2020 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alphabet Holding, which owns Google. In addition, Eric Schmidt has worked with the US Department of Defense on innovation, co-authored the book “How Google Works” and is the owner of the Schmidt Family Foundation.

    The purpose of the visit of the delegation led by Mr Schmidt is to learn about the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster and the effects of the occupation of the Exclusion zone by Russian troops in February-March 2022.

    On June 2-3, specialists of Chornobyl NPP are taking part in the international workshop “Digital twins in lifecycle of nuclear facilities. From construction of an NPP to its operation and decommissioning.”

    Digital Twin is a complex digital model of the environment or system that uses real data to create simulations and predictions without affecting the actual analog. It enables verifying hypotheses, testing products, and helping identify bottlenecks and/or problems in a process or a physical object before they occur.

    Digital Twins’ software uses tools of artificial intelligence, data modeling and analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented, virtual and artificial reality.

    On May 24, as part of a working visit, representatives of the management team of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), headed by the NASU’s President Anatolii Zahorodnii, arrived to the Exclusion Zone and Chornobyl NPP.

    The visit was aimed at deepening the scientific support of activities in the Exclusion Zone, including activities on the decommissioning of the Chornobyl NPP and transformation of the Shelter Object into an environmentally safe system.

    The NASU’s management held a working meeting at the ChNPP industrial site with a Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (SAUEZM) Yevhen Kramarenko, Acting Director General of Chornobyl NPP Valeriy Seyda and the mayor of ChNPP satellite town Slavutych Yuri Fomichev.

    On 27-28 April, Slavutych hosts the online International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning and Environmental Recovery INUDECO 2023.

    This year’s topic is “Nuclear Energy: the Challenges of War” – the urgent issue amid the full-scale war unleashed by russia against Ukraine.

    The conference was opened by ChNPP Technical Director Oleksandr Titarchuk: “Without a doubt, the year 2022 will join 1986 as one of the most tragic in the history of the Chornobyl NPP. The ChNPP occupation, which lasted for more than a month, led to material losses, destruction of logistical ways of ensuring the work of ChNPP, and social and psychological consequences for the staff. In extremely difficult conditions, held at gunpoint of armed russian soldiers, the ChNPP personnel worked the longest shift in their lives - 600 hours instead of 12.

    26 April 2023 – on the day of the 37th anniversary of the Chornobyl Disaster, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Mr Ruslan Strilets visited the Chornobyl NPP industrial site.

    As a tribute to fallen liquidators, Mr Strilets and members of his delegation joined the plant’s staff during the traditional ceremony of laying flowers at the Memorial to victims of the disaster. In his address, the Minister called to remember the tragedy of 1986 and make the right conclusions out of it.

    “2022 divided the world into two: one has been struck with fear of the possible consequences of nuclear terror in Ukraine, and the other has been unfortunately financing it. I would like to thank all those who stayed on their workplaces and continued doing their job. As it is very important today during the full scale invasion and the fight against ruscism that everyone was in their place, did their job and fought their battle for the sake of a strong and independent Ukraine”, — said the Minister.

    The Joint Eighth and Ninth Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety was held at the IAEA’s Headquarters in Vienna (Austria) from 20 to 26 March 2023.

    The Review Meeting was attended by a large delegation from Ukraine headed by Acting Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU), Chief State Inspector for Nuclear and Radiation Safety Oleh Korikov. Also the delegation includes representatives of SNRIU, SE NNEGC “Energoatom”, SSE CERWM, and the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna.

    SSE “Chornobyl NPP” (ChNPP) was represented by Deputy Technical Director (for Safety) Oleksandr Novikov.

    During this event, the Ukraine’s party made public the summary of the implemented measures to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities for a six-month period since the time of the Seventh Review Meeting to the Convention.

    However, taking into account the full-scale military aggression initiated by the russian federation against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the National Report was mainly focused on those impacts endured by the Ukrainian NPPs’ nuclear and radiation safety system due to the war.

    On 3 March, Germany’s Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen visited Slavutych, a Chornobyl NPP’s satellite town. The event was held within the activities dedicated to 37th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster.

    During the visit the high-level delegation of Germany met with a mayor of Slavutych, administration of ChNPP and employees who faced the russian occupation during February-March 2022.

    “Thank you for such stories from the eyewitnesses. I am sincerely grateful that you managed to maintain the Chornobyl NPP, because it would be the worst in this horrible year to face another nuclear catastrophe.

    I would like to wish you comprehensive worldwide support. May peace come as soon as possible and all those taken from us return home at the earliest possible moment. Thank you!” — said in his speech Mr. Vice Chancellor.

    In March 2023, a series of online training sessions on providing psychological first aid, psycho education and rehabilitation techniques were delivered in Slavutych – Chornobyl NPP workers’ town.

    The training sessions were organized with the support of WANO Paris Center at Chornobyl NPP’s request.

    During the month, practical psychologists from Slavutych listened to experts from the Center for Trauma, Crisis and Conflicts of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Participants of the course included psychologists of the Chornobyl NPP Training Center, Social and Psychological Centre of Slavutych, school psychologists and others.

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