On 26th of April 2022, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) made a decision to suspend some licenses that actually stops implementation of activities on Units 1, 2 and 3 decommissioning, activities at radioactive waste management facilities and some types of activity in the use of nuclear energy.
In particular, this refers to the suspension of the following licenses:
— No. ЕО 000040 — for the right to implement activities at a lifecycle stage “decommissioning” of Chornobyl NPP Units 1, 2, 3.
— No. ОВ 001092 — for the right to implement activities “processing, storage of radioactive waste” (operation of the Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant (LRTP)).
— No. ОВ 001094 — for the right to implement activities “processing, storage of radioactive waste” (operation of NSC-SO complex).
— No. ОВ 001095 — for the right to implement activities “processing, storage of radioactive waste” (operation of the Temporary Storage Facility for Solid Waste of III Group (High-Level Waste), Low- and Intermediate-Level Long-Lived Waste (TSF for HLW and LIL-LLW)).
— No. ОВ 001096 — for the right to implement activities “processing, storage of radioactive waste” (commissioning of the Solid Radioactive Waste Retrieval Facility (SWRF) and Solid Radioactive Waste Processing Plant (SWPP) of the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (ICSRM).
— No. ОВ 010950 — for the right to implement activities on the use of ionizing radiation sources.
Work on individual dosimetry control of Chornobyl NPP's staff has been restored in full at the ChNPP. About this informed Head of Radiation Safety Shop Leonid Yakovenko.
As is known, on 24th of February 2022 ChNPP was seized and blocked by russian forces. As a result, the Radiation Safety Shop, as well as other plant's departments, could not fulfill the designated functions and duties in full.
“During the occupation, it was impossible to control individual radiation doses based on readings of the main individual dosimetry control equipment — “Harshaw” dosimeters. The reason is that to do this work it is necessary to involve separately trained staff from the Laboratory of individual dosimetry control.
On April 26, Head of IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi visited Chornobyl NPP. He led the Agency's mission on preventing nuclear accidents during the war in Ukraine. Mr Grossi was accompanied by high officials of IAEA represented Italy, France, Austria, Sweden and several other countries.
As was declared ahead of the visit, presence of IAEA in Chornobyl would be of primary importance for activity of this organization to support Ukraine, as the Agency strives to restore the regulatory control of the NPP and to ensure its safe and reliable operation.
The IAEA experts have delivered the equipment and set the purpose to conduct radiological surveys at the ChNPP site which was occupied by russian troops for five weeks.
Chornobyl NPP’s official website was not active when the Plant was occupied by troops of russian federation. ChNPP had only one information broadcaster – its official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ChornobylNPP.
From today – 14 April 2022 – the website resumes its operation.
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Due to sharp increase of a number of COVID-19 cases among SSE ChNPP staff, and in order to stop fast spreading of the coronavirus infection, ChNPP administration has made a decision on transferring the staff to the special working regime starting from 02 February, 2022, by orders No.121 dated 01 February 2022 and No.197 dated 15 February 2022, “On establishment of the downtime at the enterprise”.
Until at least 27 February 2022, the operational staff only, ensuring nuclear and radiation safety will remain working on site on a regular operating schedule, as well as employees which will be required for plant’s operation needs.
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