The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine with the involvement of SSTC NRS has conducted state review of nuclear and radiation safety for the ChNPP’s “Report on Results of Stage 3 of the Comprehensive Commissioning (‘hot’) Testing of the Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant (SRPP) of the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (ICSRM). The document was approved on 13 December.
Although approval of this document does not yet mean the completion of commissioning of Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant (SRPP), however, it shows significant progress Chornobyl NPP has achieved in this direction.
On 14th of December we mark the Day of Honoring the Liquidators of Consequences of the Chornobyl Accident. For the occasion, the Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine Mr Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, officials of the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, and officials and personnel of Chornobyl NPP paid tribute to the fallen liquidators by laying flowers on the Chornobyl Memorial near the ChNPP Administrative Building.
From November 22 to November 24, 2022, the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the IAEA) mission worked at Chornobyl NPP site.
During 2-8 October, a team of veterinarians from the USA, Germany, Great Britain, and Ukraine were working on site of the Chornobyl NPP and in the Exclusion Zone. The purpose of their mission was implementation of the next stage of the Dogs of Chornobyl project led by the Clean Futures Fund, USA.
September 26, 1977, the day of ChNPP Power Unit 1 start-up. The first of nuclear power plant four reactors began to work opening the way to nuclear power industry in Ukraine.