From 21 to 25 June training on radiation safety for specialists from the United States and Great Britain was held at Chornobyl NPP and in the Exclusion zone.
The training was attended by experts in nuclear, radiation, fire and hazardous materials management safety (USA), as well as the head of the emergency response service of nuclear and environmental regulators in UK. The event was organized by the Chornobyl NPP Radiation Safety Shop, Clean Futures Fund (USA) and Technical Resources Group (USA).
The programme included both theoretical and practical parts: lectures and exercises on measurements indoors and outdoors. In particular, the participants of the training got acquainted with the peculiarities of radioactive situation at Chornobyl NPP and performed environmental monitoring in Prypyat and Chornobyl, at the pumping station, near the Valeriy Khodemchuk memorial, in the space under NSC Arch and at other locations of the industrial site.
On June 8, ChNPP started a 10-year period of spent nuclear fuel transportation from the old storage facility to a new one.
On June 7, an enterprise-wide emergency response drill took place on the site of the newly built Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility No.2 (ISF-2).
On May 21, 2021, with witness of Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Serhii Kostiuk, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine handed over a Licence ОВ 001092 to the State Specialized Enterprise Chornobyl NPP to carry out the activity on radioactive waste (RAW) processing, storage in terms of liquid RAW processing, namely operation of the Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant (LRTP).