On October 7-8, 2013, a delegation of Ignalina NPP (Lithuania) Management headed by the Director General Darius Janulevicius has officially visited Chernobyl NPP.
Chernobyl NPP and Ignalina NPP are the nuclear power plants. Therefore, as Darius Janulevicius said, the priority of the visit is to share the experience gained by both enterprises for a period since their final shutdown.
The official visit agenda was diversified enough. The guests got familiar with a decommissioning concept accepted at Chernobyl NPP, with the changes of organizational structure and the options of personnel motivation required for improvement of process management. In return, the Lithuanian delegation members provided also a presentation regarding Ignalina NPP decommissioning progress.
Contrary to Chernobyl NPP, for the Units of which a deferred dismantling strategy is accepted, Ignalina NPP follows an immediate dismantling, when equipment is dismantled almost immediately following reactor shutdown. Hence, the delegation members were interested specifically in experience regarding organization of dismantling activities, as well as procedure and process of releasing the dismantling waste from regulatory control.
During the tour, the guests visited the facilities for radioactive waste management located within industrial site and got familiar with NSC construction progress.
At the end of the visit, Darius Janulevicius pointed out that during the meeting the representatives of Ignalina NPP have heard many valuable comments and remarks, which they would try to address in their future activity. “Our processes go forward almost in parallel. We keep ahead of you in some issues, and you do it in other ones, but we have different decommissioning strategies and, in common sense, we all are pioneers dealing with decommissioning of RBMK reactors. I am sure that such close bilateral cooperation would be very useful to enhance the efficiency for solving important and unique tasks, which our enterprises deal with”, the Director General of Ignalina NPP emphasized.
