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    Since August 17, the personnel of JV Novarka perform the studies of operating ventilation systems of the main capacity and annular space of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) in different modes of equipment operation.

    This work is carried out in order to implement the first stage of the Technical Decision "On organization of the ventilation mode of the single NSC-SO complex for the period of ventilation system testing and trial operation of the first commissioning stage (CS-1) of NSC" within the contract for design, construction and commissioning of NSC.

    At this stage of ventilation system operation study, the radiation monitoring of radioactive emissions into the environment through ventilation stack of NSC is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Technical Decision. Also according to the requirements of the Technical Decision, the personnel of the Radiation Safety Shop of SSE ChNPP and the Service of JV Novarka perform additional radiation monitoring of the environment both within the space under the NSC Arch and within the area of ChNPP industrial site and beyond its boundaries.

    Dear colleagues!

    We invite you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Transformation of the Shelter Object into Ecologically Safe System: Challenges and Solutions", which will take place on November 27-28, 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    The conference goal is to choose promising scientifically and economically justified ways to resolve the problems of the Shelter Object transformation at the stage after New Safe Confinement commissioning.

    November 26, 2018 Сonference participants will have the opportunity to visit Chernobyl NPP's Facilities, namely the observation pavillion of the New Safe Confinement, space under the New Safe Confinement, Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant and Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management. The visit will be ogganized according to the requirements of the Procedure of Exclusion zone and Zone of unconditional (obligatory) resettlement visiting by citizens of Ukraine, foreign delegations and foreigners. Persons wishing to participate in a technical visit to Chernobyl NPP till November 1, 2018 shouls fill a special application form availiable at the Conference website www.sof2018.dazv.gov.uа and mark the item "participation in the technical visit" and act in accordance with instructions sent on your e-mail.

    Three-days expert mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency at Chornobyl NPP, organized within the framework of the Technical Cooperation Project UKR9038 "Support to Nuclear Power Units decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management at Chornobyl NPP site and within the Exclusion zone" was completed on July 26.

    The purpose of the mission is to review the Feasibility Study (FS) for creation and location of new facilities for radioactively contaminated materials management on compliance with IAEA standards.

    Significant volume of radioactive materials, namely, different categories and types of liquid and solid radwaste, radioactively contaminated soils, demolished concrete and metal structures and equipment, cables, as well as construction waste (garbage, fragments of concrete, reinforced concrete, metal constructions) is generated in process of ChNPP power units decommissioning and Shelter object transformation into environmentally safe system.

    On July 24 and 25, Mr Christophe Xerri, Director of the IAEA Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology undertook a familiarization visit to the Chernobyl NPP site.

    The purpose of his visit to Ukraine was to become familiarized with the progress of activities in the area of radioactive waste management and the issues of fuel cycle in Ukraine.

    During the visit, Mr Xerri signed a Practical Arrangement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (SAUEZM), establishing cooperation in the area of Science and Technology Research for Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Remediation of Radioactively Contaminated Sites.

    Mr Xerri visited the ChNPP site to familiarize with the processes of decommissioning of the power plant, as well as the management of radioactive waste and spent fuel.

    On July 12, a press conference was held in Kyiv on the experience of implementing the RODOS system in Ukraine – the European system for decision-making support in case of radiation accidents.

    Mr. Ulf Rosengard, Project Manager of Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development – EuropeAid (Brussels), Mr. Wolfgang Raskob, Head of Accidence Consequence Group of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), Mr. Vitalii Petruk, the Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (SAEZM), representatives of the State Nuclear Regulatory Authority, National Nuclear Energy Generating Company “Energoatom” took part in the conference. Mr. Sergei Goncharov, Head of Information Technology Department, represented the Chernobyl NPP.

    The press conference was held within the framework of the Project “Extension of Decision-Making Support System in Ukraine for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone”, funded by the European Union. As EU experts and representatives of Ukrainian departments noted during the conference, during the last seven years the system has been implemented at each of four Ukrainian nuclear power plants and in the Exclusion Zone.

    1. To NOVARKA’s team / A l'équipe de NOVARKA
    2. Radioactive material theft prevention — task of drill at ChNPP
    3. Visit of TEPCO delegation
    4. Common database for the individual dosimetric control

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