The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine with the involvement of SSTC NRS has conducted state review of nuclear and radiation safety for the ChNPP’s “Report on Results of Stage 3 of the Comprehensive Commissioning (‘hot’) Testing of the Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant (SRPP) of the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (ICSRM). The document was approved on 13 December.
Although approval of this document does not yet mean the completion of commissioning of Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant (SRPP), however, it shows significant progress Chornobyl NPP has achieved in this direction.
On 14th of December we mark the Day of Honoring the Liquidators of Consequences of the Chornobyl Accident. For the occasion, the Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine Mr Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, officials of the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, and officials and personnel of Chornobyl NPP paid tribute to the fallen liquidators by laying flowers on the Chornobyl Memorial near the ChNPP Administrative Building.
In addition, during his visit Mr Krasnolutskyi awarded the ChNPP workers that participated in liquidation of consequences of the Chornobyl Disaster and that have endured the occupation of the Chornobyl site by russian forces in February-March 2022 with honorary diplomas.
From November 22 to November 24, 2022, the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the IAEA) mission worked at Chornobyl NPP site.
The mission was held in the framework of Assistance Action Plan, the document developed and signed between Ukraine and the IAEA following the visit of the IAEA representatives to Ukrainian nuclear sites and to de-occupied Chornobyl NPP in April – June 2022.
The main purpose of the Plan is providing Ukraine with technical assistance and support in nuclear safety and security area. Now, it is the third IAEA mission at ChNPP. During the visit, ChNPP safety issues, in particular, physical protection, nuclear safety and radiation monitoring are investigated and discussed.
During 2-8 October, a team of veterinarians from the USA, Germany, Great Britain, and Ukraine were working on site of the Chornobyl NPP and in the Exclusion Zone. The purpose of their mission was implementation of the next stage of the Dogs of Chornobyl project led by the Clean Futures Fund, USA.
This project was initiated back in 2017 and aims to reduce the population of stray dogs naturally by sterilizing them, and thus create safer conditions for workers of the plant and the Exclusion Zone. Besides the sterilization, all dogs are subject to medical examination and vaccination.
“This campaign is focused on the dogs in the local zone around the Arch (the New Safe Confinement), where it’s been the most challenging to catch them.