On the 9^th of April the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko officially visited the Chernobyl NPP site. He was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Dmytro Mormul, Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Volodymyr Kholosha and Kyiv Region Governor Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk.

The guests visited the construction site of Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2), as well as were familiarized with progress of works on equipment dismantling in a Turbine Hall of Power Unit No.1.

At the Shelter Object Observation Pavilion the SSE ChNPP General Director Igor Gramotkin familiarized the Vice Prime Minister and his attendants with the current state of Shelter Object and progress of works on the New Safe Confinement erection. After that the honourable guests visited the NSC construction site, where nowadays active works on assembling the Arch metal structures are underway.

In the course of the visit Mr. Yu.Boyko was interested in the issues of prospective development of the Chernobyl NPP site and possibility of its utilization in fuel and energy complex of Ukraine.