The official opening ceremony of the SOLAR CHERNOBYL Solar Power Plant (hereinafter – SPP) was held at the Chornobyl NPP industrial site on 5 October. The event was attended by the Acting Director General of SSE ChNPP Valeriy Seyda, CEO of Solar Chernobyl Limited and Consortium “RODINA - ENERPARC AG” Yevhen Variahin, Co-founder and Shareholder of “Enerparc AG” Stefan Muller, Executive Director of “Enerparc International GmbH” Oliver Herzog, senior staff of Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine, delegation of German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Ukraine), delegation of Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, representatives of SC “Energorynok”, and others.
“Chornobyl NPP was named the first one a number of times. The first NPP of Ukraine, the first NPP being under decommissioning, the first NPP where the large-scale projects are under implementation... Today we are the first NPP at the site of which the alternative energy is being generated. I believe that this is very positive that electrical capacities are present at the Plant again, and they are in commercial production – electrical energy is being produced,” – mentioned Mr. Seyda in the course of the celebrations on the occasion of opening the SPP.
On 3rd of October the Chornobyl NPP was visited by representatives of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (hereinafter – NRC) led by the NRC’s Commissioner the Honorable Stephen G. Burns. The U.S. colleagues were accompanied by the Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (hereinafter – SNRIU) Hryhorii Plachkov and SNRIU’s staff.
UNDP delegation led by Ms. Osnat Lubrani, UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) in Ukraine, visited the Chornobyl NPP with a familiarization visit. The visit took place within the official opening of the Information Center "Chornobyl: the Territory of Change" coordinated by the State Enterprise "Center for Organizational, Technical and Information Support of the Exclusion Zone Management".
Last week, experts from the Belgian company Tecnubel delivered a second in-depth training course in practical use of multifunctional manipulators BROKK-180 at ChNPP industrial site.
Ceremonial opening of the international exhibition was held in the United Nations Office at Vienna within the framework of the 62nd General Conference of IAEA. The exhibition will run until 21st of September. Both the Chornobyl NPP, the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management and Ukraine in general for the first time ever take part in such event with their own stand.