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    Address of Chernobyl NPP press relations service to mass media


    Dear colleagues!

    The following year will be marked with a milestone event for nuclear industry of Ukraine and the whole world – in April 2016 the international community will commemorate the 30-th anniversary of the accident at ChNPP.
    For all of these years, Chernobyl NPP has been successfully coping with its direct tasks, and also simultaneously has been leading the enterprise to the European standards of work activity management, mastering internationally recognised project management methods, implementing increasingly complex engineering solutions, gaining confidence of the western partners both in itself and in Ukraine at large.

    High quality of all the enterprise’s challenges implementation enables Chernobyl NPP to set up an additional goal for itself, namely: to transform the image of ChNPP in the public opinion from the enterprise where the nuclear catastrophe occurred into the image of modern, state-of-the-art company working for gaining in radioactive material management experience, creating the base of efficient operations intended for elimination of radiation and nuclear accident. In order to turn this objective into reality, ChNPP has within many years been implementing the following tasks:

    - proving to the international and Ukrainian communities with dynamic actions that the top priority for the enterprise is safety of works carried out within the industrial site.
    - demonstrating openness and transparency of the enterprise in providing information about all of the processes taking place here and about radiation conditions, giving impartial and detailed coverage of the engineering operations carried out on the site.
    - being keen to be a useful to the utmost extent enterprise for Ukraine and the world, gaining in priceless for the international community experience, including the experience in nuclear facility decommissioning, radioactive material management and other areas.
    - forming the base of knowledge data about nuclear industry for the Ukrainian and international public.

    With regard to the international community’s interest towards ChNPP’s situation due to the forthcoming date Chernobyl NPP again would like to express our openness in assisting mass-media’s visits to ChNPP site and facilities, and would like to address to the world and national mass media with the following:

    1. Taking into regard the increasing number of the connected with forthcoming 30-th anniversary of accident at ChNPP visits to the 30-km zone and industrial site and foreseeing maximum peak of such visits in March-April 2016 we would request to schedule your visit to Chernobyl NPP, as far as possible, within a period from October 2015 to March 2016. All the detailed information on the visit arrangements you can find here.

    2. We would ask the mass media to take into account, when you prepare the information on ChNPP, that the enterprise wants to correct the international community’s attitude towards Chernobyl NPP and to change this attitude from negative (as the enterprise where a major nuclear accident happened) to positive (as a science-based advanced enterprise sharing the gained unique experience with the world).

    SSE Chernobyl NPP is interested to place in the media the content associated with the enterprise’s activity and situation on the ChNPP’s industrial site.

    With regard to this, ChNPP’s press relations service would like to express its openness to assist all of the willing journalists with preparation of articles and standups on so-called “Chernobyl” subject, with selection of necessary fact-based information, advising on technical issues.

    In addition, being aware that at present situation it is not always possible for the TV journalists/cameramen to visit personally ChNPP’s area, ChNPP’s press relations service is open, according to your request, to provide you with pictures from the archive as well as to prepare ourselves a number of up-to-date pictures/video footage of the facilities requested by you.

    If you have any questions concerning preparing material about ChNPP please do not hesitate to contact us:
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    Tel. number: 04593 42254

    A meeting of the Scientific-Organizing Committee of the International Forum “The Chernobyl Lessons for the World’s Nuclear Safety” under the co-chairmanship of SSE ChNPP Director General I.I. Gramotkin and NTUU “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” Rector M.Z. Zgurovsky was held on 15 October in Kyiv.

    Information about a status of preparation to the Forum was presented at the meeting, including discussion of the draft agenda, membership of steering bodies and lists of invited participants, as well as a list of speakers’ candidates. In addition, an issue of inviting to take part in the Forum a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, an author of a book “Voices from Chernobyl”, a Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich was discussed.

    Representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy visited the Chernobyl NPP in the early October.

    The visit’s objective was to learn about progress of the projects being implemented at the ChNPP industrial site within the frame of financial assistance of the international donor community. During the visit the delegation’s members visited the contamination control area and Units 1, 2 control rooms, as well as a construction site of a new dry type storage facility for spent nuclear fuel (ISF-2) and outdoor switchgear of the ChNPP.

    Also the guests visited the Shelter Object’s observation pavilion, where were informed about the New Safe Confinement construction project progress and a current state of the Shelter. Then they went to the free access area and observed the Confinement’s Arch itself that impressed them a lot. Besides, they also visited Prypiat, an old satellite-town of the Chernobyl NPP.

    The issues of further cooperation between the SSE ChNPP and the U.S. Department of Energy were discussed during a meeting with the Plant’s management.  

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    A few days ago the General Contractor of the project "Construction of a New Safe Confinement", NOVARKA, celebrated a kind of jubilee - 20 million man-hours of work at the site.

    The unique structure of the Arch, exceeding in the sizes the largest stadiums and being the largest mobile arched structure in the world, is erected by professionals of more than 27 different nationalities. For example, for lifting operations it was necessary to resort to professionals from Azerbaijan, as theyhad the necessary experience of work with great loads after working on oil platforms; Italian climbers were initially engaged in works at height; cladding is arranged by Turkish company using German technology; Portuguese experts are engaged in the erection of formwork, etc. But, of course, the linking in the team are Ukrainian workers (2000 Ukrainian workers, of which more than 1000 workers are always present at the site).

    On 25th September, the Chernobyl NPP was visited by a delegation of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Cooperative Threat Reduction Program team led by Mr. Gary Park, International Project Manager. 

    The tour was arranged within the frame of a visit of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program team to Ukraine with the purpose to familiarize themselves with institutions which are receiving assistance of the U.S. DoD.

    1. Representatives of regulatory bodies of Norway, Sweden and Ukraine visited ChNPP site
    2. Active works on the project on constructing a dry type storage facility for spent nuclear fuel (ISF-2) are underway at Chernobyl NPP site
    3. Bouyges Group executives visited Chernobyl NPP site
    4. Reforming the management structure of the exclusion zone is underway

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