On 22nd September, representatives of regulatory bodies of Norway, Sweden and Ukraine made a technical visit to the Chernobyl NPP. In particular, the delegation included the representatives of the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as British specialists. The visit was held within the frame of the Swedish-Norwegian-Ukrainian Joint Initiative to strengthen the safety and security of Ukrainian NPPs that was declared during The Hague Nuclear Security Summit in March 2014. The delegation visited the ChNPP according to the agenda of The Third Coordination Meeting between Ukraine and the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, which was held in Kyiv on September 21-23.
During the meeting with the ChNPP management, the issues of further cooperation within the Swedish-Norwegian-Ukrainian Joint Initiative were discussed.
Besides, the guests visited the Layout Hall of Administrative Building-1, where they were given information about activities at the ChNPP, visited the Shelter Object’s Observation Pavilion and Free Access Area of the NSC Arch assembling, as well as a town of Prypiat.
FYI. The Second Coordination Meeting on bilateral cooperation projects with the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) was held on May 27-29, 2015, in Oslo (the Kingdom of Norway). Representatives of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate and SE State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of Ukraine took part in this meeting.
Interest of the Norwegian side in continuation of the bilateral cooperation with Ukraine, extension in the future of current cooperation directions and involvement of other Ukrainian organizations into participation in existing and new projects in the field of nuclear and radiation safety was confirmed in the course of the meeting.
The Ukrainian specialists presented the results of implementation of the existing cooperation projects. During the meeting, a special attention was given to discussion of results of implementation of the project on Regulatory Threat Assessment Report development.
Within the meeting, the participants got the opportunity to visit the Heimdal research facility.
