From September 4 till September 28, 2017, within the framework of the Technical Cooperation Program with the IAEA, employees of the State Institution “Radioactive Waste Disposal Point” (SI “RWDP”) from the city of Dushanbe (Tajikistan) are trained in the Central Analytical Laboratory (CAL) of the 2nd class on the characterization of radioactive wastes, which is part of the SSE “Ecocentre”.
From September 5 to 7, 2017, a joint Ukrainian-American command-and-staff training on responding to a state-level emergency associated with a radiation accident in a separate unit of “Zaporizhzhya NPP” of the SE “NNEGC” Energoatom”, took place in the crisis center of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES of Ukraine) in Kyiv, which was attended by specialists of the State Enterprise “Center for Organizational, Technical and Information Support of the Exclusion Zone” (SE “COTIS”), which belongs to the sphere of management of SAUEZM.
At the end of August, a delegation of Japanese scientists in the field of environmental monitoring from the Institute of Radioecology at the University of Fukushima and a group of students from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) visited the Exclusion Zone.
In the framework of the implementation of the construction of a new safe confinement (NSC) and its commissioning, rescuers of the 11th State Fire and Rescue Detachment (Chornobyl) (11 SFRD) are constantly monitoring the implementation of temporary fireworks at the industrial site of SSE “Chornobyl NPP”.
On the occasion of the Independence Day, the military unit 3041, guarding the Chornobyl NPP, was awarded the honorary Military Flag. Yuriy Allerov, the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Lieutenant-General, solemnly handed one of the thirty flags to the commander of the military unit 3041. Among all the military units protecting the nuclear power plants of Ukraine, the honor of obtaining the Battle flag was awarded only to the military part of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Scientists from the Georgetown University of the United States, employees of the Polissya State Radiation and Ecological Reserve and specialists from the State Specialized Enterprise “EcoCenter” investigated wolves with special collars that allow measuring the accumulated dose of gamma radiation and hourly tracing of animal movements.
The IAEA regional seminar has recently been completed in the Republic of Belarus. The meeting was devoted to the best practices in managing exclusion lands and informing the population about the Chornobyl problem.
Specialists of the Ukrainian Center for the Study of Carnivorous Birds, during the surveillance of birds in the Exclusion Zone, took photo of a black stork (Ciconia nigra), which was sitting on an electric pillar. In a detailed review of the photos, a ring with a number on the stork’s foot was noticed. Employees of the center made a request to the Ukrainian Center for the Ringing of Birds of the Institute of Zoology named after І.І. Shmalgauzen of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and subsequently received a reply from colleagues from the Czech Republic.
In July 2017, within the framework of the “Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation Programme (INSC)” – “Emergency response equipment at the special combines of the State Corporation “Radon” and for remediation of radioactive waste storage sites Part II, funded by the European Commission, a part of the equipment for emergency brigades was delivered to the special combines of the State Corporation “UkrSA “Radon”.
Within the framework of the project “Integrated automated system of radiation monitoring of the environment at state specialized enterprises of the State Corporation “Ukrainian State Association “Radon”, from July 24 to July 28, 2017, representatives of the contracting company “NOVIA a.s.” (Czech Republic) visited SSE “Kyiv SISC”.
On August 1, 2017, the first stage of the complex testing of SNFSF-2 with the simulators of spent fuel assemblies (SFA) was started. The work is carried out in accordance with the Test Program, agreed with the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine.
President Petro Poroshenko signed the Law of Ukraine No. 2125-VIII "On Amendments to the Budget Code of Ukraine on the Improvement of the Mechanism for Financial Provision of Radioactive Waste Management", adopted on July 11, 2017.
