On April 26, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accompanied by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Roman Abramovskyi, Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) Hryhorii Plachkov and other officials, visited the Chornobyl NPP site and the Exclusion Zone.
During the briefing at the industrial site of Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility (ISF-2), Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted: «Scientific and educational contents should be put into the history of the Chornobyl accident to motivate the people to develop all of this in a positive way. Today our goal is to transform the exclusion area – that what we say about the Chornobyl – into the area of revival. And, of course, our task is to do everything we can to improve the reliability and the safety, and to avoid and not repeat similar disasters in the future.»
Within the framework of solemn events on the occasion of 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl accident, the Chairman of the SNRIU Mr. Plachkov handed to the Acting Director General of ChNPP Valeriy Seyda the License giving a right to operate the ISF-2. This License was issued by the SNRIU.
FYI: The Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility (ISF-2) is the facility designed for acceptance, preparation for storage and storage of spent fuel assemblies (SFAs) accumulated at Chornobyl NPP.
About 21,000 SFAs will be prepared for long-term storage, packed and placed at ISF-2. Now these SFAs are stored at the Interim Spent Fuel Wet Storage Facility (ISF-1) from where they will be transported to the ISF-2.
The designed capacity of ISF-2 is processing of 2,500 fuel assemblies and absorbers per year. The ISF-2 construction was funded through the Nuclear Safety Account (NSA) and by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
