On 26th April President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visited the Chernobyl NPP site. The visit was made within the scope of events dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the ChNPP accident.
The first facility visited by the President was an Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility (hereinafter – ISF-2). This facility is designed for the acceptance, processing and directly storage of spent fuel assemblies (nuclear fuel) accumulated at the Chernobyl NPP during its operational period. Currently all basic technological equipment has been installed in the storage facility and “cold” tests are underway.
At the ISF-2 ChNPP Director General Igor Gramotkin and Safety Improvement Chief Engineer Andrii Savin briefed the President on the work progress.
Following visiting the ISF-2 Petro Poroshenko put flowers to the monument to the Heroes of Chornobyl and presented state awards to the accident liquidators – the ChNPP employees. In his speech the President noted: “Just now I have examined the state of readiness of the Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility and only the principled position of the operators, under the strict directives of the Government, ensures the guaranteed quality and safety of operation of this crucial facility in the future.”
Events dedicated to 32nd anniversary of the Chornobyl catastrophe with the participation of first persons of the country, SAUEZM’s and ChNPP’s management and representatives of the Exclusion Zone’s enterprises will be held within the territory of the Exclusion Zone and Chernobyl NPP’s industrial site.
An offsite meeting of the working group of the Committee on Environmental Policy, Natural Resources and Mitigation of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was held today at the Chernobyl NPP. The visit took place in accordance with the work plan of the Committee in the framework of the Eight session of the Verkhovna Rada. Deputies set an objective to study the issues related to commissioning of the New Safe Confinement and other facilities of the Exclusion Zone.
On April 20, 76 journalists from Ukraine, China and Belarus visited the Chernobyl NPP within the framework of a press tour dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the accident at the ChNPP. The press tour was organized by the State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management.
On April 17, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading the Law "On Amendments to the National Program on Decommissioning of the Chernobyl NPP and Transformation of the Shelter Object into an Environmentally Safe System" (No. 6624 dated June 22, 2017), submitted for consideration by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine .