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    In the finding of SE “Ukrderzhbudexpertise” it is said: “Under the results of design documentation review and elimination of comments it is found that the specified documentation has been developed in accordance with initial design data along with observance of requirements to strength, reliability and life duration of the construction object, its operational safety, engineering assurance, sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population, occupational safety, ecology, fire safety, technogenic safety, nuclear and radiation safety, energy saving, and can be approved in accordance with the established procedure…”.

    All works on the NSC project are divided into six Licensing Packages (LP). The works on three of them, namely: cleanup of the construction site, works on installation of trenches, foundation pits, foundations of lifting towers, working platform for the Arch assembling, foundations in the erection area – were completed. Foundations of the transport area are at the stage of completion. Licensing Package of the main facility LP-5, which includes foundations, metal structures, cladding and processing facility, was approved in December 2011. The Arch assembling activities are underway at the ChNPP industrial site according to this very Package.

    Licensing Package-6 is one of the basic packages of constructing the New Safe Confinement, which envisages integration of whole NSC design.

    The NSC construction works are performed by the contractor – NOVARKA Consortium.

    More detailed information on the NSC construction design can be found here

    On 11th of April 2013, the factory acceptance tests of emergency cutting machine and graphite rings and plugs removal device were performed at the Research and Production Association “GROUP OF COMPANIES MAGR” under implementation of the Project “Upgrading of Long-Length Item Cutting Facility (LICF) at Chernobyl NPP”.

    The representatives of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Shop of Chernobyl NPP, the contracting organizations, i.e. AMEC Company (UK) and Production Commercial Firm “ADI” (Ukraine), and the representatives of the manufacturing company RPA “GC MAGR” took part in the testing.

    For reference: Project “Upgrading of Long-Length Item Cutting Facility at Chernobyl NPP, Republic of Ukraine” is funded from European Commission for implementing technical assistance programmes in nuclear safety under TACIS Programme.
    Implementation of this project will enable to create conditions for safe management of equipment and special items used during operation of the Units in reactor cores and currently are being stored in the cooling pools, technological shafts and reactors of Units 1, 2, and 3.


    On 11th of April 2013, the IAEA Delegation headed by Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA Deputy Director General, had a familiarization visit to industrial site of Chernobyl NPP. The Delegation stays in Ukraine on invitation of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine.

    As part of ChNPP site visit, Mr. Nackaerts accompanied by the Deputy Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate Olga Makarovskaya and other officials visited the construction site for Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel (ISF-2), got familiar with current state of the Shelter Object and progress on New Safe Confinement construction.


    On 11th of April 2013, the IAEA Delegation headed by Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA Deputy Director General, had a familiarization visit to industrial site of Chernobyl NPP. The Delegation stays in Ukraine on invitation of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine.

    As part of ChNPP site visit, Mr. Nackaerts accompanied by the Deputy Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate Olga Makarovskaya and other officials visited the construction site for Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel (ISF-2), got familiar with current state of the Shelter Object and progress on New Safe Confinement construction.

    On the 9th of April the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko officially visited the Chernobyl NPP site. He was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Dmytro Mormul, Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Volodymyr Kholosha and Kyiv Region Governor Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk.

    The guests visited the construction site of Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2), as well as were familiarized with progress of works on equipment dismantling in a Turbine Hall of Power Unit No.1.

    At the Shelter Object Observation Pavilion the SSE ChNPP General Director Igor Gramotkin familiarized the Vice Prime Minister and his attendants with the current state of Shelter Object and progress of works on the New Safe Confinement erection. After that the honourable guests visited the NSC construction site, where nowadays active works on assembling the Arch metal structures are underway.

    In the course of the visit Mr. Yu.Boyko was interested in the issues of prospective development of the Chernobyl NPP site and possibility of its utilization in fuel and energy complex of Ukraine.

    1. Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko visits Chernobyl NPP
    2. SSE ChNPP Obtained License for ISF-2 Construction and Commissioning
    3. SSE ChNPP Obtained License for ISF-2 Construction and Commissioning
    4. All Necessary Activities to Support Facilities in Safe Condition Undergo at ChNPP

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