The activities are carried out under the IAEA technical cooperation project UKR9040.
The project objective is supporting the Ukrainian institutions in addressing national decommissioning, radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel management, including radio-ecological monitoring.
Project tasks:
Enhancing the capabilities at the enterprises under authority of State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management in terms of:
- Arrangement of safe and efficient decommissioning activity.
- Improvement of radioactive material management.
- Arrangement of safe and efficient activities on radiation safety .
- Ecological monitoring of the environment on basis of the best international practices.
Implementation progress:
Expert missions were conducted to review Chornobyl NPP documents and recommendations were received on the following:
- 2019 Report on the implementation of the Final Shutdown & Preservation stage works.
- 2020 Report on the implementation of the Final Shutdown & Preservation stage works.
- Report on the industrial trial operation of the Free Release Facility.
- Decommissioning plan for the Liquid Waste Treatment Plant (LRTP).
- Decommissioning plan for the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (ICSRM).
In June 2022, organic carbon analyser was delivered to the Chornobyl NPP site, installed and calibrated, and training was delivered to the personnel.
In June 2023, a set of equipment, materials and guidelines for the quantitative determination of Americium and Plutonium in radioactively contaminated water and liquid radioactive waste were delivered to the ChNPP site.