A delegation of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) is working at the Chernobyl NPP on June 20-21. The TEPCO is known as an operator of Fukushima NPP in Japan.
The delegation includes high-level representatives of the TEPCO’s Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee (NRMC). This Committee was established by global and domestic experts after the Fukushima accident as an advisory body to the TEPCO’s Board of Directors. The Committee monitors and advises the TEPCO’s activities with the objective to achieve “Safe mind”, “Technology” and “Social communication”.
The Japanese experts arrived to the Chernobyl NPP to study the experience of stable and safe work during the decommissioning stage. This day and at the meeting with the Chernobyl NPP top management they discussed the issues of nuclear safety culture, ChNPP engineering capability, human resource management, emergency response and tools for communication with public. During the visit the Committee’s members also visited the key facilities of Chernobyl NPP: Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel No.2 (ISF-2) and New Safe Confinement (NSC).
Work of the delegation will be continued tomorrow on June 21 at the ChNPP Training Center in Slavutych.
As a matter of fact, within the framework of the visit to Ukraine, the Committee’s members visited the Khmelnytskyi NPP, held working meetings at the headquarters of NNEGC “Energoatom” and State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management in Kyiv, and visited Chornobyl town as well.
