On February 26 Vodafone Ukraine’s representatives made a presentation of NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things) technology at ChNPP site.
NB-IoT is a licensed LTE cellular standard for data exchange between devices. Features of NB-IoT standard is optimization of connection of a large number of devices with a small amount of data transfer, efficient use of the radio frequency resource (bandwidth of one channel — 180 kHz), ultra-low power consumption by devices, allowing their operation up to 10 years without changing the battery, as well as high signal penetration.
Sergey Rybalko, Senior Master of the Radiation Safety Shop describes the possibilities of this technology usage for Radiation Safety needs: "Taking into account that this technology is not sufficiently developed not only in Ukraine but also in the world as a whole, it is more suitable for household systems than for technological system. Regarding the volume of data transmitted by this system, it is suitable for ChNPP. The volumes we have are not too big, in practice, these are text data up to hundreds of character symbols.
Main Cranes System was tested after modification from February 18 till February 22 at New Safe Confinement site.
From 19 to 21 February 2019, ChNPP Training Centre hosted an International Atomic Energy Agency expert mission aimed at reviewing and providing expert recommendations on the sampling and characterization methods for solid radioactive waste (hereinafter RAW) retrieved from solid waste storage facilities, as well as identifying radionuclide vectors and measuring activity of RAW packages.
On February 13, a fire training took place at Chornobyl NPP. Administrative Building No 1, being the office for Plant’s management and key services and departments was a subject for the training.
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.