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    On Thursday 25 January, Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, visited the industrial site of the Chornobyl NPP with a familiarization purpose.

    Mrs Vasylevska-Smahliuk represents the voters of the 96th constituency, located in the Kyiv region to the northwest of the capital. The constituency includes Slavutych and Ivankiv territorial communities, which are closely connected with the Chornobyl NPP and the Exclusion zone.

    The purpose of the deputy’s visit was to get acquainted with the activities of enterprises belonging to the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, as well as to obtain information about the period of occupation of the Exclusion Zone by russian troops. The visit will serve the basis for preparation of the analytical material to promote the Exclusion Zone development and disseminate reliable information about the consequences of the occupation in the European Union countries.

    On December 14, a delegation of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine headed by the First Deputy Minister Mr Oleksandr Krasnolutskiy visited the ChNPP industrial site.

    Representatives of the Ministry, the managers of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management and Exclusion Zone enterprises laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of the Chornobyl disaster established near the Administrative building of the Chornobyl NPP.

    After the ceremony of honouring the liquidators of the Chornobyl accident, Mr Krasnolutskiy and Acting Head of the SAUEZM Andrii Tymchuk personally presented departmental awards to the Chornobyl NPP personnel who were on rotation today.

    At the end of November, ChNPP obtained the original copy of the license entitling the enterprise to process and store the radioactive waste which exists and results from Shelter facility transformation into an environmentally safe system.

    Amendments were made to the license, and they are about extension of the implementation periods for a number of activities at New Safe Confinement-Shelter facility. Particularly, they include:
    1. Extension of service life period for Shelter facility unstable building structures for another 6 years — up to 2029. Unstable building structures are the Shelter facility structures whose collapse probability is very high.
    2. Development of a new design for unstable structure dismantling — to 2025.
    3. Completion of unstable structure dismantling — up to October 31, 2029.

    On November 30, ChNPP specialists participated in Round Table “Challenges of Fuel Containing Material Management”

    For information
    Fuel containing materials are the nuclear fuel of Chornobyl NPP former Power Unit 4 damaged due to the beyond-design-basis accident, fuel assemblies of Power Unit 4 spent fuel pool bundles and any other materials (pieces of reactor core, mixtures, corium, solutions, chemical compounds, dust etc.) containing the appreciable amount of nuclear fuel (i.e. its concentration is ≥ 1 of weight percent).

    Fuel containing materials of Shelter facility are long-lived radioactive waste. The most famous example of fuel containing material is so called “elephant foot”.

    1. Drill Scenario: Fire and Spill of Radioactive Waste. Operational Personnel are Preparing for Interaction in Extreme Conditions
    2. IAEA Launched Mental Health Assistance Programme for Personnel of Ukrainian NPPs
    3. Chornobyl NPP office in Slavutych successfully completed emergency preparedness drill
    4. Chornobyl NPP visited by IAEA Medical Mission

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