As of October 20 (11:30), 35 COVID-19 disease cases were confirmed among the SSE ChNPP staff.
Among them:
• 19 persons were discharged recovered
• 17 persons are under ambulatory treatment
• 1 person is under stationary treatment in Pereiaslav hospital
Other 12 employees are self-isolated as they contacted the persons with positive PCR tests.
All employees are under the supervision of their family doctors.
47 PCR tests were made so far.
ChNPP will cooperate with the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in field of radioactively contaminated materials decontamination.
The corresponding Agreement was recently signed by Chornobyl NPP.
According to Oleksandr Skomarokhov, Deputy Technical Director (for Radioactive Waste Management), within the framework of this Agreement KAERI representatives will decontaminate radioactively contaminated fragments of concrete and metal with a wide range of irradiated elements.
“This is a mutually beneficial cooperation. KAERI has technical developments aimed at decontamination of contaminated surfaces, but is incapable to test these technologies on real rather than artificially contaminated surfaces, because such contamination does not exist in Korea at the moment. At the same time, Chornobyl NPP in process of decommissioning is all time is looking for tools and technologies that will allow, on the one hand, high-quality decontamination of materials, and on the other - significantly reduce the volume of RAW generated in this process. Thus, ChNPP site is a kind of laboratory test site for testing the technology proposed by KAERI specialists”.
Chornobyl NPP signed an Agreement with Finnish company "Fortum Power and Heat Oy" regarding joint pilot tests on radioactively contaminated water (RCW) treatment at Chornobyl NPP.
Fortum Company (Finland) is a developer of selective ion exchange materials, namely sorbents series CsTreat®, CoTreat® and SrTreat® with proprietary right and confidential composition.
Within the framework of the tests it is planned to purify radioactively contaminated water from radionuclides in a pilot plant using ion exchange materials developed by Fortum, to analyze the initial and purified media, and to prepare a report with the results obtained.
Before the Agreement signing in 2018 - 2019, the parties performed relevant laboratory tests. Their results confirmed the feasibility of these sorbents additional testing in a pilot plant. Besides, the pilot test program will be complemented with RCW pre-treatment and separation of organic compounds by oxidation.
Pilot tests will allow make a decision regarding the possibility to use this technology to process accumulated Chornobyl RCW, which volume is more than 20 thousand cubic meters.
In July 2020, ChNPP participated in a joint on-line meeting between the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (hereinafter referred to as SAUEZM) and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as KAERI). The meeting was devoted to a project for establishment of a pilot facility to test the technologies of radioactive concrete treatment and metal foam decontamination.
At the end of September, one more step towards this direction was taken, namely Mr. Serhii Kalashnyk, the SAUEZM Head, and Dr. Won Seok Park, the KAERI President, signed a Memorandum about Technical Cooperation in research and development sphere.
“Agency supports continuously and extensively the international cooperation with partner institutions as only having combined the best world technologies and practices we will be able to implement more efficiently all the tasks we face. Namely these are ChNPP decommissioning and Shelter transformation into an environmentally safe system,” emphasized SAUEZM Head Serhii Kalashnyk.
From 29.09.2020 to 01.10.2020, the Moscow Center of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO-MC) has organized a working meeting on "NPPs Equipment Aging Management.”
Within three days, about 50 representatives from 10 countries will discuss the problems of aging management (resource management) of structures, systems and elements (SSE) at different stages of Power Units operation, criteria for selection of equipment to be included in the aging management program, identification of the dominant mechanisms of SSE degradation, their obsolescence and other issues.
Taking into account the situation connected with the COVID-19 global pandemic, the event is held in the format of online video conference, all discussions and presentations are arranged remotely.
| November 5, 1986 Unit 2 was commissioned after the accident |
| November 17, 2001 ChNPP was assigned as the operating organization (operator) of Chernobyl NPP’s nuclear installations |
| 2020-10-21 07:28:00 |
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