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    The Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Facility (ISF-2) was handed-over from the Contractor (Holtec International) to the Employer (SSE ChNPP).

    Upon the information from Volodymyr Pieskov, the Deputy Technical Director for Operation, the Contractor has finished all construction and assembly works, and the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate (SACI) has been provided with a request for obtaining a certificate on ISF-2 completion. Currently, the SACI Commission is working on the storage facility site.

    “According to the contract agreement, following completion of construction and assembly works, except for providing a corresponding Act, the Contractor should hold practical training in equipment management for personnel of Chornobyl NPP. This is compulsory condition since during “cold” testing of the facility performed in summer 2019 all operations dealing with ISF-2 equipment were performed by the personnel involved by the Holtec International.

    On December 5, Chornobyl NPP has obtained a certificate confirming its readiness for operation of the First Commissioning Stage (CS-1) of NSC.

    This means that the CS-1 scope of work is fully completed. It includes designing and construction of the permanent NSC foundations, the main Arch structure together with the encasement and the main crane system, the general internal NSC configuration, the solid insulating coating of the sections inside NSC, the sites, as well as designing, manufacturing, construction (installation) and commissioning of the technological life support systems and NSC condition monitoring systems and external engineering networks to connect NSC life support systems to ChNPP systems.

    In addition, within the CS-1 framework, construction and commissioning of a new ventilation stack of Chornobyl NPP second stage and old VS-2 dismantling was performed prior to the Arch sliding to the design position.

    On December 3-4, the Chornobyl NPP hosted the delegations from China and Uzbekistan under the International Cooperation Development Program.

    China
    On December 3, the representatives from the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) started two-day visit to ChNPP in order to get familiar with the Exclusion Zone and its industrial facilities, and to hold working meetings relating to an opportunity of implementing future common projects and experience sharing.

    The China National Nuclear Corporation is a large state enterprise incorporating over 100 companies and institutions and works continuously together with 20 existing members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences.

    The Corporation works in R&D, performs construction activities and operates the facilities in different practical activities, particularly, in electrical energy generation at NPPs and in development and application of nuclear technologies. Besides, the CNNC maintains the international economic cooperation and deals with export-import operations.

    On November 13-14, the ChNPP site has been visited by the delegation from the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI).

    KAERI was established in 1959 as a unified vocational scientific and research nuclear energy institute of the South Korea and quickly gained a reputation of a center for research and developments in different areas.

    The visit of KAERI experts was preceded by a trip of specialists from ChNPP and the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (SAEZM) to the Republic of Korea.

    The objective of that visit was to present Ukrainian experience in the area of ChNPP accident mitigation, its decommissioning, and RAW management. Besides, our experts got familiar with KAERI’s experience relating to development and testing of technologies for decommissioning of nuclear facilities, they visited a simulator for dismantling process assessment which combines 3D-modeling and remotely controlled mechanisms.

    1. Survey of World Nuclear Insurance Pool
    2. Three week BROKK training
    3. Free Release Facility tests commenced
    4. Belgian experience in RAW management

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