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    On February 12, the State Agency for Management of Exclusion Zone Board was held at the Chornobyl NPP, which was aimed at summarization of the activity of all enterprises subordinated to SAUEZM and identification of the directions of activity for the current year. In addition to the Exclusion zone's enterprises managers representatives of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, SNRIU, State Environmental Inspectorate, NNEGC "Energoatom", Atom-trade unions and local communities, bordering EZ were invited to participate in the Board.

    As the SAUEZM chairman Vitaliy Petruk stated in his report, 17 enterprises and 4 institutions, employing 6077 persons, are under the sphere of SAUEZM management. In his report, he presented the main achievements in the work, in particular, on approval of the changes to the National Program for Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant decommissioning and the Shelter Object transformation into environmentally safe system by the Verkhovna Rada. Due to renewal of the targeted use of funds from the State Fund for Radioactive Waste Management in December 2018, first phase of construction works at Vector Complex was completed, preparation for NSC and ISF-2operation is close to completion.

    As previously reported, the pre-commissioning activities, individual and integrated tests of equipment and technological systems of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) are in progress at the ChNPP industrial site.

    JV NOVARKA and SSE ChNPP personnel have recently performed the integrated testing of the NSC radiation monitoring system, power supply system under the “complete blackout” scenario and fire protection system, during which emergency situations were simulated and response of separate systems was checked. Prior to start of the final stage of integrated testing of the entire complex of NSC (Commissioning Stage No.1), it is necessary in a similar manner to complete the integrated testing of some more technological systems. During “trial” operation within 72 hours almost all equipment and all systems will be involved in operation under the design conditions. The trial operation will be carried out by SSE ChNPP personnel under the control of the contracting company, i.e. JV NOVARKA.

    The IV International Conference INUDECO 2019 will be held in Slavutych on April 25-26.

    Subject of the Conference: “Nuclear Decommissioning and Environment Recovery.”

    The conference is held to address problems and perspectives, increase the efficiency level of scientific and practical research, establish cooperation and exchange of experience on the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and environmental recovery.

    The Conference registration will be held from 01 February till 10 April 2019.

    On January 22, 2019, the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate issued a separate permit to the State Specialized Enterprise "Chornobyl NPP" Series ОД No. 33033/11 providing the right for operation of existing building constructions within the boundaries of the second generation of Chornobyl NPP, performing functions of New Safe Confinement (NSC) enclosing perimeter, after their reinforcement and sealing.

    The ground for the permit issuance is a positive conclusion of the State expertise of Nuclear and Radiation Safety to the package of documents submitted by SSE Chornobyl NPP and the inspection survey performed by SNRIU from January 14 to 17, 2019. During this survey, Chornobyl NPP confirmed its ability to perform the declared activity regarding operation of these constructions.

    At the beginning of 2019 the Government of the Kingdom of Norway approved the continuation of “Chornobyl Decommissioning Visualization Center” project. The project is implemented by the Chornobyl NPP and Institute for Energy Technology (hereinafter — IFE, in Norwegian — Institutt for Energiteknikk).

    The new project is targeted at the development of the Chornobyl Decommissioning Visualization Center (hereinafter — CDVC) that was created in 2016. The CDVC introduces the advanced technology of virtual reality (VR), 3D modelling and visualization to improve the efficiency and safety of work performance at the ChNPP decommissioning stages.

    As an example, using the CDVC one can calculate occupational doses for personnel when transporting the spent nuclear fuel. This will help to properly install the shielding and calculate the safe performance time. Besides, the Center enables to simulate abnormal and emergency situations and prepare the response plan well in advance.

    1. Checking of NSC main function — prevention of radioactive release
    2. Inspection of State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine
    3. “Chornobyl is the territory of change” even in small ways
    4. Chornobyl NPP takes part in an exhibition being conducted in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

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