On November 22, a high-level opening event took place in virtual mode to kick off a series of activities on mental health support for operating personnel of NPPs in Ukraine.

    This work is some part of the IAEA comprehensive medical programme announced by the IAEA Director General, Mr Rafael Mariano Grossi, on 26 April 2023.

    The main objective of this programme is to enable that the operating personnel at NPPs in Ukraine have access to services of psychological counselling and mental health support. It will allow ensuring the continued fitness of these personnel for duty.

    In addition, the programme assumes a series of trainings and workshops for regular staff psychologists of NPPs and psychologists in the towns-satellites.

    On 14 November, the personnel of the Chornobyl NPP office in Slavutych participated in the special facility training. The drill involved employees following a designated route to reach radiation shelters, simulating actions in case of emergencies.

    The drill aimed to practice response procedures and evaluate the coordination of evacuation personnel, including issuing evacuation commands, opening evacuation exits, and organizing staff.

    Oksana Yegorenko, an officer from the ChNPP Emergency Preparedness and Response Department, commented that the training was successful providing practical experience for the staff to learn emergency procedures and address potential issues.

    On November 7-8, the office of the Chornobyl NPP in Slavutych and the industrial site of the station were visited by experts from the IAEA Medical Mission.

    The purpose of the visit was to assess the results of previous IAEA assistance missions and analyze the current needs of ChNPP in material, technical, and humanitarian assistance.

    The delegation explored ways the IAEA could help improve working conditions for the personnel, including visits to the ChNPP office in Slavutych meeting with ChNPP management, and also the town hospital and Social-Psychological Centre both of which are considered to be partners of the IAEA in improving the physical and psychological condition of the plant personnel.

    As part of the visit to the town of Slavutych, the US. Clean Futures Fund (CFF) management held a number of meetings with ChNPP representatives.

    On October 13, representatives of the Fund visited ChNPP office where they met with Acting Director General Serhii Martynov and ChNPP Trade Union Head Bohdan Serdiuk.

    At the meeting, they discussed the progress of "Dogs of Chornobyl" project whose main task is to control the population of stray dogs within ChNPP territory by their sterilization and vaccination. CFF Chief Veterinarian Jennifer Betz said that project made it possible to curb almost completely the uncontrolled breeding of dogs and in general had a positive effect on health of the four-legged who live within the power plant area.

    Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is becoming an official training and practical base for the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" named after Igor Sikorsky.

    The corresponding agreement on dual education between ChNPP, KPI and Slavutych town was signed on 20 September 2023. From now on, students of one of the most prestigious technical universities in Ukraine will be able to get internships at ChNPP, and the necessary specialists will be trained in ChNPP satellite town of Slavutych.

    "Chornobyl NPP has accumulated vast experience, including absolutely unique experience, in overcoming the man-made accidents consequences and nuclear facilities decommissioning. We are ready to share this experience with gifted Ukrainian youth", said Serhiy Martynov, ChNPP Acting General Director.

    On September 21-22, Chornobyl NPP joined the organizing and participating in the international workshop "Spent Nuclear Fuel Management".

    The event objective is professional discussion of spent nuclear fuel management and spent nuclear fuel aging management.

    Spent nuclear fuel (hereinafter referred to as SNF) is fuel elements or their groups retrieved from nuclear reactors of nuclear power plants and other facilities. The fuel is classified as spent if it is not able any longer to support the chain reaction efficiently.

    From 1977 till 2000 — when the power units generated electricity — Chornobyl NPP built up more than 21,000 fuel assemblies.

    From 21 till 24 August, 2023, online sessions of Technical Meeting on the Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Inventory Tool were held. The event was organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as IAEA).

    The main objective of event is to introduce Member States to the IAEA’s new spent fuel and radioactive waste inventory tool. In particular, the event was dedicated to software which enables to manage and to record the data on radioactive waste during its entire life cycle – from generation to disposal.

    Chornobyl NPP was represented at this meeting by engineer Oleksandra Stelmakh from Radioactive Material Integrated Management Department.

    On 17 August, Mrs Rumina Velshi, President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, visited ChNPP industrial site. The visit was accompanied by representatives of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine.

    The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is the body regulating the use of Nuclear Energy and Materials in Canada.

    The purpose of the visit was to demonstrate the support and solidarity of the International Community, as well as to ascertain what challenges and requirements Ukraine needs immediate help to overcome.

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    April 26, 1986 (1.23.40 a.m., Moscow time) – accident at Chornobyl NPP Unit No.4 in the course of design testing of one of the safety-related systems
    In the beginning of May, 1977 the assemblers, builders, servicemen and operational personnel of ChNPP begun precommissioning works at Unit 1

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