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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s administration and personnel
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.