On May 21, 2021, the SSE Chornobyl NPP Acting Director General Valeriy Seyda was handed over ЕО 000859/1/15 Individual Permit of the SNRIU by a Head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine – Chief State Inspector for Nuclear and Radiation Safety Hryhorii Plachkov; the permit is for retrieval of standard spent nuclear fuel from the Interim Spent Fuel Wet Storage Facility (ISF-1).
This permit obtaining enables the Chornobyl NPP to start the next important stage of ChNPP decommissioning – i.e. activities and operations for removal of spent nuclear fuel from ISF-1 and the spent fuel transportation to ISF-2 for the long-term storage.