On October 11, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of United States of America in Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch visited Chornobyl NPP with an informal visit. The main purpose of the visit was to obtain information about the state of New Safe Confinement (NSC) and Dry type Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2) construction projects implementation.
During the visit Marie Yovanovitch visited the NSC's observation pavilion, showing the great interest to the details of the Chornobyl disaster and overcoming the accident consequences at the Unit four. Deputy Chief Engineer of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Mr Alexander Novikov and SIP Project Management Unit Director Mr Oscar McNeil answered numerous questions from Mrs Ambassador.
Top Management meeting regarding ISF-2 Project was held at Chornobyl NPP industrial site on October 5. The meeting was attended by EBRD's Nuclear Safety Department representatives Mr Vince Novak, Mr Steven White, Mr Alexander Slavis and Mr Valery Kulishenko. Chornobyl NPP was represented at the meeting by Plant’s General Director Mr Igor Gramotkin, Safety Improvement Chief Engineer Mr Andriy Savin, Deputy Technical Director Mr Volodymyr Peskov, and by representatives of the Holtec Company Management, being the Project General Contractor.
