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    Last week, experts from the Belgian company Tecnubel delivered a second in-depth training course in practical use of multifunctional manipulators BROKK-180 at ChNPP industrial site.

    This equipment is used in the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management (hereinafter: ICSRM). This time, the training was delivered for the senior operational personnel of the Industrial Complex, in particular senior engineers and operational engineers.

    BROKK-180 manipulator is used to Remove Solid Radioactive Waste. Auxiliary attachments can be fitted to it, including hydraulic hammer, concrete crusher, chain saws, hydraulic shears, bucket, etc. The multi-functionality of the manipulator makes it unexpendable in the Waste Management process. It makes it possible to remotely perform a number of different manipulations.

    Ceremonial opening of the international exhibition was held in the United Nations Office at Vienna within the framework of the 62nd General Conference of IAEA. The exhibition will run until 21st of September. Both the Chornobyl NPP, the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management and Ukraine in general for the first time ever take part in such event with their own stand.

    The Chornobyl NPP in this event is represented by Vitalii Medvid, Head of International Cooperation and Information Department, and Ihor Lyshylenko, employee of IT and Computing Systems Department.

    About 20 countries have presented their expositions at the exhibition. The Ukrainian stand demonstrates the achievements of Ukraine in the Chornobyl disaster’s consequences elimination, the ChNPP decommissioning and the Shelter Object transformation into an environmentally safe system, as well as the positive potential of the Exclusion Zone.

    Within the ChNPP site, there are two facilities which from a category of distinctive structures have evolved into the category of legends and myths. Two most famous buildings, one of which is a symbol of tragedy and the other is a symbol of victory, are Shelter (Sarcophagus) and New Safe Confinement (Arch).

    The personnel of Chornobyl NPP IT Department and Strategic Planning Department have combined these two unique facilities into “Арка AR”, a common element of augmented reality, and now any smartphone or tablet user can place them on their table very easily or visit the space under Arch without harmful health effect of radiation.

    For this you should do the following:

    1. Download from Play Market (link) or App Store (link) and install “Арка AR” application.
    2. Download Image Target (link) and print it or open Image Target at any other device.
    3. Launch “Арка AR” application and focus a device camera on Image Target and start your trip along the legend.

    September 3, 2018 Igor Gramotkin relinquished duties of the General Director of the State Specialized Enterprise "Chornobyl NPP".

    In accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 777 dated 03.09.2008, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine implements the competitive selection and appointment of heads of the state enterprises.

    Till that time according to the SAMEZ Regulations approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 564, taking into account the requirements of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Permissible Activity in the Field of Nuclear Energy Use", the Chairman of the State Agency for the Exclusion Zone Management Vitalii Petruk signed a decree on assignment of the duties of Chornobyl NPP General Director to Valeriy Seyda, First Deputy General Director of SSE ChNPP.

    In the period from 27th to 31st of August, SSE “Chornobyl NPP” is holding the workshop of the International Atomic Energy Agency focused on the end state of NPP decommissioning and material release from regulatory control.

    Read more: ChNPP Decommissioning

    The workshop became a place for sharing the experience of the representatives from 9 countries of Central and Eastern Europe having the operating nuclear power plants or implementing the decommissioning projects, the representatives from the lead specific institutes of Ukraine and NAEC “Energoatom”. Among the participants, the experts from Chornobyl NPP take a special place, the NPP which became the first and remains the only one in Ukraine under decommissioning.

    Commenting the workshop, Vladan Ljubenov, the IAEA officer, the expert in safe management of radioactive waste, emphasizes that currently a number of decommissioning projects is increasing across the globe and many of them are approaching to their completion. Therefore, the important thing is to share the experience, discuss approaches and problems related to determination of end state of the facilities and ways of its achievement.

    1. The Arch’s readiness for operation
    2. NSC ventilation systems operation study performed
    3. International Scientific and Practical Conference "Transformation of the Shelter Object into Ecologically Safe System: Challenges and Solutions"
    4. IAEA Mission on Radioactive Materials Management

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