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    Tests of the damaged nuclear fuel handling table were completed on 2017 New Year's Eve. This was the last factory tests of equipment for the Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility (ISF-2), the project on construction of which is under implementation at the Chernobyl NPP. Following that the equipment will be transported from Germany, where it was manufactured, to Ukraine and delivered to the Chernobyl NPP site.

    “By the end of March 2017 we have to finish not only all construction and installation works, but also individual tests, as well as comprehensive testing of separate systems, – Chief Engineer of Safety Improvement Project Andrii Savin informed. – This is necessary in order to start comprehensive “cold” tests of the whole ISF-2 in April.”

    This is to inform you that that a press-tour to the Chernobyl NPP for members of the Ukrainian and foreign media will be organized on December 22, 2016.

    During the press-tour the media members will visit:

    - Chernobyl NPP industrial site (NSC);
    - Interim Spent Fuel Dry-type Storage Facility construction site (ISF-2).

    The meeting of the Board of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine was held on December 1, 2016, in course of which the issue "On the approaches to the licensing of Confinement operation, including Chernobyl NPP "Shelter" object" has been considered.

    Currently activity at the Chernobyl NPP "Shelter" object is carried out under the License EO series No 000033 issued by the State Nuclear Regulatory Committee on December 30, 2001. Period of license validity is till the New Safe Confinement (hereinafter: NSC) commissioning.

    According to the plans of the State Enterprises Chernobyl NPP and the Contractor for NSC designing and construction, the facility construction completion is expected in November 2017. After the NSC first stage commissioning Chernobyl NPP should obtain a new license for its operation.

    The regular Assemblies of Chernobyl Shelter Fund and Nuclear Safety Account contributing countries took place at Chernobyl NPP on November 29.

    The main topic of the CSF Assembly discussion was a progress in New Safe Confinement construction project, the Arch of which is set in the design position over ChNPP Unit 4 destroyed due to beyond-design-basis accident.

    Mr. Hans Blix, the Chairman of the Assembly of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund Contributors, has mentioned that NSC Arch sliding is really historical event since the New Safe Confinement would enable to protect Ukraine and the world in future against nuclear hazard: “After 30 years since tragedy, the pain and scale of losses are still biggish. However, the recovery process is being continued. Junction of two halves of the big arch, installation of mammoth cover over historical reactor is like repair of a wound, a nuclear wound, concerning us all.”

    1. IAEA mission was held at Chernobyl NPP
    2. Major step in unique engineering project as Chernobyl arch slides into place
    3. Appeal of the Participants of Roundtable “30 years of the Shelter Object - 30 Years of the Feat” to the Government of Ukraine and International Community
    4. An Open Letter

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