Works on draining of central halls’ cooling pools are in progress. These unique works are being performed at RBMK units for the first time, since Chernobyl NPP is the first NPP with reactors of this type which has reached the stage of decommissioning.
Currently, cooling pools of power units 2 and 3 of the plant have already been drained. The purpose of these activities is in confirming the capability of storing active special items, accumulated during the units’ operation period, in cooling pools without filling them with water (operation of cooling pools as “drywells for special items storage”).
In deep sorrow Chernobyl NPP Administration and personnel conceived the information about terrible terror attack occurred yesterday in Nice.
We are indignant at cynicism of the horrible murder of civilians during celebration of one of the most important and most respected National Holiday in France.
Today, we express our sincere and deepest condolences to the French people, to all Europeans who share grief with families of the victims.
Avec la profonde douleur l'administration et les employés de la Centrale Nucléaire de Tchernobyl expriment l’information de la terrible attaque des terrorists, qui a eu lieu hier a Nice.
Nous sommes indignés par le cynisme, avec lequel l’assassinat terrible de civils a fait pendant célébration de l'une des plus grandes et la plus respectée fête Nationales en France.
Aujourd'hui nous exprimons nos sincère et profonde condoléances au peuple Français, à tous les Européens qui partagent avec les familles des victimes leurs terrible chagrin.
Based on decrees of an investigating judge of Kyiv Pechersk District Court L.I. Tsokol dated 10.05.2016 on proceedings No.757/21597/16-k and No.757/21599/16-k within the frame of investigating the criminal proceeding No.12015000000000564, which was added into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (EDRDR) on 05.10.2015, with the purpose as stated in the decrees: “to reveal and seize documents that can witness the illegal taking of money and possession of this state enterprise”, on 9th June 2016 investigators of the Main Investigations Directorate of the National Policy of Ukraine conducted simultaneous searches in offices and other non-residential premises owned by the SSE Chernobyl NPP and located in Slavutych and within Exclusion Zone.
Within implementation of the project to complete the construction of interim dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, a lifting device for fuel tubes (FT) has been delivered to ISF-2 construction area. This device will be used as a part of main equipment in the process chart of spent fuel preparation for storage, and it is intended for handling of empty fuel tubes and those filled with spent fuel assemblies.
June 6 last Spent Fuel Assembly (SFA) was unloaded from the cooling pool of the Central Hall 1 and transferred to the wet type Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-1).
It should be noted that before completion of the extended operational time, on April 14, 2016 the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) has issued the separate permit to SSE "Chernobyl NPP" to unload the damaged Spent Nuclear Fuel from Units 1,2 and to transport it to the "wet" type Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-1) for safe disposal and storage.
- 10 May 2016, Works Started on Discharge of Damaged Spent Nuclear Fuel from ChNPP Unit 1
- 26 April 2016, Third Amendment to Grant Agreement was signed between EBRD, the Government of Ukraine and SSE Chornobyl NPP on allocation of additional funding for ISF-2 construction completion
- President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visited Chernobyl NPP site on 26th April
- Hennadii Zubko: Shortage of funds to complete the Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility at ChNPP to be covered