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    Chernobyl NPP officially stopped generation of electricity on 15th December 2000. This became one of the most tragic events in the ChNPP history second to the 1986 accident.

    At 13:17, by the order of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Power Unit No.3 reactor was shut down forever with a turn of the key.

    The decision on the pre-schedule decommissioning of Power Unit No.3 and final shutdown of ChNPP was made by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 29th March 2000. Such actions were caused by the commitments of Ukraine to the world community stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Ukraine and Governments of the G7 countries and the Commission of the European Communities on the Chernobyl NPP Closure. The Memorandum was signed on 25th December 1995.

    The regular meeting of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund and Nuclear Safety Account Donors Assemblies was held on December 8, 2017.

    According to the information of the Ukrainian delegation members, Assemblies participants established a new date for Arch (NSC) construction works completion - end of May 2018.

    Besides, Assemblies members have emphasized decreasing of the radiation levels at the site after New Safe Confinement Arch sliding, as well as starting and successful progress of ISF-2 comprehensive testing. Assemblies members expressed the hope that the Contractors will perform their work at ISF-2 and NSC facilities in due time.

    The next meeting of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund and the Donors of the Nuclear Safety Account Donors Assembly is scheduled for first half of 2018 in Ukraine.

    On 6th December, during the dismantling of a post-accident light roof covering of Unit 4 Turbine Hall, a piece of tail fins with broken elements of Mi-8 helicopter’s anti-torque propeller was found. This helicopter had crashed in 1986 during the elimination of the ChNPP accident consequences.

    It is a reminder that on the evening of 2nd October 1986, during the treatment of the ChNPP II Generation Units roof (spilling of bonding adhesive over horizontal surfaces), the helicopter of Volodymyr Vorobiov, due to the absence of an alarm rail at a high-altitude crane rope, touched the rope by its blades and plummeted to earth.  All members of the crew died from the fall.

    Currently, the possibility to retrieve and decontaminate the tail fins piece to use it as a museum specimen is under consideration.

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    The present monument to the died pilots (i.e. Volodymyr Vorobiov, Oleksandr Yunhkind, Leonid Khrystych, Mykola Hanzhuk) is installed close to the Chornobyl helicopter landing site.

    The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted changes to the Procedure for the Use of Funds to Support the Safety of Chernobyl NPP and for the Appropriation of Funds in 2017 to Pay off the Contribution to the Chernobyl Shelter Fund of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The relevant decision was approved at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on 4th December.
    Thus, the Cabinet reviewed the Resolution “On making amendments into the Supplement to the Procedure for the Use of Funds envisaged in the state budget to maintain the Power Units and Shelter Object in safe condition, and implementing actions on preparation for the Chernobyl NPP decommissioning”. Objective of adopting the Draft Resolution is to ensure targeted and efficient use of budget funds, state control and implementation of actions to maintain the Power Units and Shelter Object in safe condition, and actions to prepare for the Chernobyl NPP decommissioning under the conditions of expiration of the Document “High priority measures on the NPP decommissioning and Shelter transformation into an ecologically safe system”.

    On 28th November the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine approved a Report on results of the financial audit of State Specialized Enterprise “Chernobyl NPP” (SSE ChNPP).

    The performed audit showed that on the whole the financial and budgetary accountability of SSE ChNPP in 2016 ensures submission of reliable data on the budget revenues and spending. The shortcomings and deviations, reveled by the audit, have limited effect on the financial and budgetary accountability of the enterprise over 2016 and do not falsify information on its overall financial condition.

    Generally, the enterprise ensured the targeted use of funds allocated from the state budget. In this respect, 888,400,000 Ukrainian hryvnias (99.9 %) were used from the state budget in 2016 from the allocated 889,700,000 hryvnias.

    In addition to the above funds, the enterprise received 77 mln. hryvnias of target financing from the Social Insurance Fund and about 11 mln. hryvnias – owing to the international technical assistance. All sums, both of the received state target financing and international technical assistance, are reflected in the enterprise accounting.

    The complete Report and decision of the Accounting Chamber on results of the financial audit of State Specialized Enterprise “Chernobyl NPP” are placed on the official website of the Accounting Chamber.

    1. New Safe Confinement: A year under the protection
    2. IAEA experts assessed the ChNPP system for radioactive waste management
    3. ICSRM pre-commissioning activities are being continued
    4. WANO top management delegation visited ChNPP

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