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    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.

    September 26, 1977, the day of ChNPP Power Unit 1 start-up. The first of nuclear power plant four reactors began to work opening the way to nuclear power industry in Ukraine.

    We remind that before the accident of April 26, 1986, there had been four power units with total electric power output of 4,000 Megawatt. ChNPP was the first nuclear power plant which started to work in Ukraine (1977) and the first one which commenced decommissioning (2000).

    A series of trainings to maintain ChNPP personnel’s spent fuel handling skills is taking place on site of the plant.

    During the training, staff of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Shop is practicing the performance of all the fuel handling operations on the real equipment using spent fuel dummies. These trainings are being passed by all operating shifts of the two storage facilities.

    On 26 August, physical works on the ‘hot’ testing stage 3 of the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (ICSRM) were completed.

    “Successful completion of testing is a very important step in the activity of Chornobyl NPP, — comments on the testing results Deputy Head of the ChNPP’s Radwaste Management Shop (for RW processing), Mr Illia Shumkov. ‘Hot’ testing is always quite a difficult process, which is preceded by a large volume of preparatory technical and paper work. Let me remind that we call ‘hot’ tests the testing which is conducted in the conditions which are similar as much as possible to the real operating conditions of the facility. During ‘hot’ testing, the staff and equipment work with the real radioactive materials. Beside other things, the 3rd stage of hot testing was more complicated because of the occupation of the plant and the connected suspension of the licenses for this activity.

    1. Staff evacuation drill successfully conducted at ChNPP site
    2. ChNPP resumes RAW processing and disposal activities
    3. All Chornobyl NPP licenses for Radioactive Waste Management are resumed [UPDATED]
    4. Delegation of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited ChNPP

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