On September 10, as part of «hot» tests the first batch of 9 spent fuel assemblages was transported to the Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Facility of the «dry» type ISF‑2 which was loaded the day before from the «wet» type ISF-1 Storage Facility for Spent Fuel.

The State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, SE «COTIS», SSE «Ecocenter» and the Association of Chornobyl Tour Operators have jointly developed a unique route using the Ukrainian all-terrain vehicle SHERP.

The State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine has issued a separate permit to SSE «Chornobyl NPP» for the commissioning of a nuclear installation of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility – «dry» type (ISF-2). Obtaining a permit will allow to start "hot" tests with real spent fuel, which will be transported from the "wet" type storage (ISF-1) to the new «dry» type storage (ISF-2).

Developers of the mobile application about Chornobyl are conducting a digital scanning of the exclusion zone facilities. In particular, the Ferris wheel, the facilities of the central square of the city of Pripyat, the radar station Duga have already been digitized. All these facilities will become part of the exclusion zone map.

On August 23, at night-time, on the occasion of the Ukrainian Flag Day and the Independence Day, the ARTEFACT project made a light installation of a yellow and blue flag on the southern wall of the New Safe Confinement Arch, which is the largest mobile structure in the world, built over the destroyed reactor of the 4th power unit of the Chornobyl NPP.

The pilot operation stage of the abrasive blasting metal decontamination facility has been started in the Chornobyl NPP Turbine Hall.

Experts of the scientific department of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve in cooperation with the company «Meteotrek» installed an autonomous meteorological station «Meteotrek RW-4» near the checkpoint «Dytyatky».

Experts of Central Enterprise for Radioactive Waste Management visited the plant for liquid radioactive waste processing, which operates on the industrial site of the Chornobyl NPP. The purpose of the visit was to control the technological processes of processing and cementing of liquid radioactive waste. In addition, representatives of the SSE CERWM got acquainted with the work of the measuring water-radiochemical laboratory of the Chornobyl NPP and the automated process control system.

The State Specialized Enterprise «Chornobyl NPP» has obtained from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine the specific permission for pilot operation of Commissioning Stage 1 of the New Safe Confinement (NSC CS-1).

A working online meeting was held at the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management to discuss the Concept of water facilities management in the context of reorganization of activities in the exclusion zone. The event was attended by representatives and scientists of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, the State Specialized Enterprise «Ecocenter», the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, State Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the University of Portsmouth and Fukushima University.

The Joint Support Office (JSO) hosted the 22nd meeting of the RAW Sector Working Group, where the running status of projects implemented under the INSC (Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation) programme was discussed.

Ukrainian delegation took part in an online meeting of the Donor Assembly of the Nuclear Safety Account, where information on the status of implementation of international projects implemented at the Chornobyl industrial site was heard, namely: dry type spent nuclear fuel storage facility (ISF-2) and processing of liquid radioactive waste plant.