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    An all-plant emergency response drill with radiation safety elements was run at the Chernobyl NPP site on July 10. A Plant Shift Supervisor, representatives of Emergency Preparedness and Response Department, Regime and Physical Protection Department, Radiation Safety Shop, Radioactive Waste Management Shop and other specialists of the enterprise took part in this drill. Besides, military personnel of the ChNPP Military Unit No. 3041 were involved into this activity.

    As per the legend, gamma-spectrometer calibration works were underway at the Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant (LRTP), during which there was theft of ionizing radiation source — radioactive material Cesium-137 was stolen.

    The drill started at 10:00 with the command of the Plant Shift Supervisor. Headquarters of the Site Emergency Response Manager promptly notified about strengthening of radiation control within the LRTP rooms. The access to and exit from the facility was strictly restricted. An emergency team of the ChNPP Military Unit No. 3041 arrived to the LRTP.

    A delegation of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) is working at the Chernobyl NPP on June 20-21. The TEPCO is known as an operator of Fukushima NPP in Japan. 

    The delegation includes high-level representatives of the TEPCO’s Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee (NRMC). This Committee was established by global and domestic experts after the Fukushima accident as an advisory body to the TEPCO’s Board of Directors. The Committee monitors and advises the TEPCO’s activities with the objective to achieve “Safe mind”, “Technology” and “Social communication”.

    The Japanese experts arrived to the Chernobyl NPP to study the experience of stable and safe work during the decommissioning stage. This day and at the meeting with the Chernobyl NPP top management they discussed the issues of nuclear safety culture, ChNPP engineering capability, human resource management, emergency response and tools for communication with public. During the visit the Committee’s members also visited the key facilities of Chernobyl NPP: Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel No.2 (ISF-2) and New Safe Confinement (NSC).

    In line with Order of the State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management (SAUEZM) No.54 dated 06 March 2018 “On individual dosimetric control”, specialists of the Individual Dosimetric Control Laboratory under the Radiation Safety Shop (RSSh IDCL) and Information Technologies and Computing Systems Department (IT&CSD) of the SSE ChNPP, as well as the Automated Radiation Monitoring Control Systems Department (ARMCSD) of the SSE “Ecocentre”, commenced a full-scale vital joint work on creating the unified register of individual exposure doses of personnel of enterprises, institutions and organizations that undertake activities within the Exclusion Zone and Zone of Unconditional (Obligatory) Resettlement and are managed by the SAUEZM.

    The common database for the individual dosimetric control (IDC) will be created based on the software and hardware complex of information-analytical system of the SSE ChNPP Integrated Shelter Database (ISDB).

    On June 13, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation accompanied by SNRIU Chairman Mr Gregoriy Plachkov arrived at Chernobyl NPP with familiarization visit.

    According to SNRIU information, IAEA met to discuss the subject of IAEA Safeguards application in Ukraine. Within the meeting in SNRIU office details of the unannounced IAEA inspections introduction in Ukraine were discussed. Special attention was paid to inspection on checking of spent fuel assemblies with a long-term cooling time, low level of burnup, as well to spent fuel assemblies damaged and stored in the cooling pools.

    In framework of the meeting at Chernobyl NPP the experts visited Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility -2 (ISF-2) and New Safe Confinement construction sites.

    The next stage of homeless animals transportation from Chоrnobyl NPP site is started. It is implemented within the framework of the 5-year project "Chоrnobyl Dogs" aimed on sterilization and vaccination of dogs within the Chоrnobyl Exclusion zone.

    On June 6, the employers of Clean Future Fund, Chоrnobyl NPP and Novarka Company transported another 11 stray dogs from the New Safe Confinement construction site. All dogs will be vaccinated and sterilized, some of them will be exported to USA for acceptance in families, permanent houses will be found for them.

    The mission carried out by the Foundation is purely humanitarian in nature, that is, neither of the dogs that are caught on the Plant’s industrial site are not impending danger or killing. On the contrary: the young livestock will be removed from the Exclusion zone, the rest of the dogs after sterilization and vaccination will return to the ecosystem, from which they were removed. The goal of the project is to sterilize animals to reduce their population naturally, thereby create a safe environment for Chоrnobyl NPP and Exclusion zone employees.

    We remind you that the project of dogs removal from Chоrnobyl NPP site started at the end of April 2018: on April 27, the first 12 puppies were removed. In general, the Fund plans to remove about 200 puppies from the Plant’s site for acceptance them into families.

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