On 3 March, Germany’s Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen visited Slavutych, a Chornobyl NPP’s satellite town. The event was held within the activities dedicated to 37th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster.

During the visit the high-level delegation of Germany met with a mayor of Slavutych, administration of ChNPP and employees who faced the russian occupation during February-March 2022.

“Thank you for such stories from the eyewitnesses. I am sincerely grateful that you managed to maintain the Chornobyl NPP, because it would be the worst in this horrible year to face another nuclear catastrophe.

I would like to wish you comprehensive worldwide support. May peace come as soon as possible and all those taken from us return home at the earliest possible moment. Thank you!” — said in his speech Mr. Vice Chancellor.

In addition to several meeting, the German delegation visited a town’s Memorial to the Chornobyl victims and laid flowers.

It should be reminded that Germany is one of the largest contributors of the international funds which were used in particular for the construction of the New Safe Confinement at the ChNPP industrial site. Also a series of joint international radiation monitoring trainings was conducted in the Exclusion Zone in 2021 under the support of the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

Read more: Project "New Safe Confinement Construction"

The Chornobyl NPP expresses hope for further fruitful cooperation with Germany and new projects in decommissioning and radioactive material management.