On April 26, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accompanied by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Roman Abramovskyi, Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) Hryhorii Plachkov and other officials, visited the Chornobyl NPP site and the Exclusion Zone.
During the briefing at the industrial site of Interim Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility (ISF-2), Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted: «Scientific and educational contents should be put into the history of the Chornobyl accident to motivate the people to develop all of this in a positive way. Today our goal is to transform the exclusion area – that what we say about the Chornobyl – into the area of revival. And, of course, our task is to do everything we can to improve the reliability and the safety, and to avoid and not repeat similar disasters in the future.»
On April 27, the Chornobyl NPP was visited by the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.
On April 26, a ceremony of Chornobyl Atlantes monument unveiling took place near Chornobyl NPP Administrative Building. The power plant personnel were involved directly in the construction of the statuary and also financed the process. The central figure of this monument is the figure of the Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Lelechenko who was the deputy chief of Electric Shop and who laid down his life to prevent a hydrogen explosion and the spread of accident to other ChNPP power units.
22th April 2021 – positive decision was made by the board of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine on granting the SSE Chornobyl NPP an operating license for the nuclear facility, thus authorizing the load of spent nuclear fuel into the dry storage systems.
On April 15, as part of a press tour to the Exclusion Zone, representatives of the Ukrainian mass media visited the New Safe Confinement, as well as Prypiat and Chornobyl cities.