A regular mission of the IAEA began at the Chornobyl NPP to review the issues related to technical solution of irradiated graphite management including selected options for containers and storage. Today, on the first day of work, international experts visited the ChNPP industrial site.
During the morning session, experts were provided with information on the current status of decommissioning as well as with the draft technical solutions developed by the Chornobyl NPP specialists on irradiated graphite management.
The experts also visited the restricted access area, in particular the Unit 2 central hall and Lot 0 Building located at the plant industrial site, the NSC observation pavilion and the town of Prypyat.
Within the next two days of the mission, experts and specialists of the Chornobyl NPP will review the experience of Germany and the United Kingdom in the area of irradiated graphite storage as well as the international project “GRAPA” related to an analogous subject, and provide preliminary recommendations on the technical solutions proposed by the ChNPP on irradiated graphite management, including the selection of options for containers and storage.
