1st International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning and Environment Recovery
On 2 November the ChNPP Director General Igor Gramotkin, representatives of the Plant administration and contracting organizations visited workplaces of personnel of contracting companies that implement a project on reinforcing and sealing the existing structures of ChNPP Generation II. The visit was conducted within the frame of control of the project progress and for monitoring of periods of its execution.
A Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski visited the Chernobyl NPP and Exclusion Zone on 30 October.
At the ChNPP industrial site Mr. Tombinski was familiarized with the progress of construction of the New Safe Confinement’s Arch and new dry-type Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2), visited a Liquid RAW Treatment Plant (LRTP) and an Industrial Complex for Solid RAW Management (ICSRM).
The EU is one of the largest donors of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF) and Nuclear Safety Account (NSA), from which the NSC, ISF-2 and LRTP construction is funded, while the ICSRM construction has been funded by the EU in full. Besides, there are several other projects in the field of RAW management being implemented at the ChNPP site now and funded by the EU within the frame of the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation (INSC).
On October 28, Chernobyl NPP was visited by a delegation of the Australian Embassy to Ukraine and the Australian Safeguards and Non-proliferation Office headed by Mr. Mr Doug Trappett, Australian Ambassador to Ukraine. Within the framework of this visit the guests met with Mr. Andriy Bilyk, SSE ChNPP Technical Director - Chief Engineer who briefed on general situation of ChNPP’s industrial site. They also visited Shelter observation pavilion, the Arch construction area where they got comprehensive information on the progress of New Safe Confinement construction project.
Address of Chernobyl NPP press relations service to mass media
Dear colleagues!
The following year will be marked with a milestone event for nuclear industry of Ukraine and the whole world – in April 2016 the international community will commemorate the 30-th anniversary of the accident at ChNPP.
For all of these years, Chernobyl NPP has been successfully coping with its direct tasks, and also simultaneously has been leading the enterprise to the European standards of work activity management, mastering internationally recognised project management methods, implementing increasingly complex engineering solutions, gaining confidence of the western partners both in itself and in Ukraine at large.
High quality of all the enterprise’s challenges implementation enables Chernobyl NPP to set up an additional goal for itself, namely: to transform the image of ChNPP in the public opinion from the enterprise where the nuclear catastrophe occurred into the image of modern, state-of-the-art company working for gaining in radioactive material management experience, creating the base of efficient operations intended for elimination of radiation and nuclear accident. In order to turn this objective into reality, ChNPP has within many years been implementing the following tasks:
- proving to the international and Ukrainian communities with dynamic actions that the top priority for the enterprise is safety of works carried out within the industrial site.
- demonstrating openness and transparency of the enterprise in providing information about all of the processes taking place here and about radiation conditions, giving impartial and detailed coverage of the engineering operations carried out on the site.
- being keen to be a useful to the utmost extent enterprise for Ukraine and the world, gaining in priceless for the international community experience, including the experience in nuclear facility decommissioning, radioactive material management and other areas.
- forming the base of knowledge data about nuclear industry for the Ukrainian and international public.
With regard to the international community’s interest towards ChNPP’s situation due to the forthcoming date Chernobyl NPP again would like to express our openness in assisting mass-media’s visits to ChNPP site and facilities, and would like to address to the world and national mass media with the following:
1. Taking into regard the increasing number of the connected with forthcoming 30-th anniversary of accident at ChNPP visits to the 30-km zone and industrial site and foreseeing maximum peak of such visits in March-April 2016 we would request to schedule your visit to Chernobyl NPP, as far as possible, within a period from October 2015 to March 2016. All the detailed information on the visit arrangements you can find here.
2. We would ask the mass media to take into account, when you prepare the information on ChNPP, that the enterprise wants to correct the international community’s attitude towards Chernobyl NPP and to change this attitude from negative (as the enterprise where a major nuclear accident happened) to positive (as a science-based advanced enterprise sharing the gained unique experience with the world).
SSE Chernobyl NPP is interested to place in the media the content associated with the enterprise’s activity and situation on the ChNPP’s industrial site.
With regard to this, ChNPP’s press relations service would like to express its openness to assist all of the willing journalists with preparation of articles and standups on so-called “Chernobyl” subject, with selection of necessary fact-based information, advising on technical issues.
In addition, being aware that at present situation it is not always possible for the TV journalists/cameramen to visit personally ChNPP’s area, ChNPP’s press relations service is open, according to your request, to provide you with pictures from the archive as well as to prepare ourselves a number of up-to-date pictures/video footage of the facilities requested by you.
If you have any questions concerning preparing material about ChNPP please do not hesitate to contact us:
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