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    On October 24 Chornobyl NPP staff participated in the plant civil protection drill on evacuation in case of fire. The scheduled activities took place involving outside organizations and were aimed at checking emergency preparedness of personnel and facility emergency departments and organizations.

    According to the Head of ChNPP Emergency Preparedness and Response Department, Dmytro Kondratov, the drill was not ordinary as it involved all resources and capabilities of Chornobyl NPP, fire-fighting brigades of both the plant and the Chornobyl Exclusion zone, and also representatives of the Military unit 3041, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Field Office in Kyiv region and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine.

    Creation of an absolutely new mock-up of Chornobyl NPP industrial site is underway in one of the premises at the 3rd floor of ChNPP Administrative Building. The project was started 2 years ago and now it is at the final stage.

    Initially, the mock-up makers planned just to renovate the old Plant’s mock-up, located in the Mock-up Hall in the Administrative Building. Of course, this mock-up had its zest - it showed how the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant would have looked like if the accident not occurred: with the completed third stage Units, with a full-flowing pond, two cooling towers and without the Shelter object and NSC Arch. However, by the time of the renovation beginning, he had served for 30 years, dilapidated and morally and physically obsolete. After examining all the pros and cons, the authors abandoned the idea of renovation in favor of creating a fundamentally new mock-up, reflecting a modern status of ChNPP and providing opportunities for interactivity.

    The official opening ceremony of the SOLAR CHERNOBYL Solar Power Plant (hereinafter – SPP) was held at the Chornobyl NPP industrial site on 5 October. The event was attended by the Acting Director General of SSE ChNPP Valeriy Seyda, CEO of Solar Chernobyl Limited and Consortium “RODINA - ENERPARC AG” Yevhen Variahin, Co-founder and Shareholder of “Enerparc AG” Stefan Muller, Executive Director of “Enerparc International GmbH” Oliver Herzog, senior staff of Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine, delegation of German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Ukraine), delegation of Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, representatives of SC “Energorynok”, and others.

    “Chornobyl NPP was named the first one a number of times. The first NPP of Ukraine, the first NPP being under decommissioning, the first NPP where the large-scale projects are under implementation... Today we are the first NPP at the site of which the alternative energy is being generated. I believe that this is very positive that electrical capacities are present at the Plant again, and they are in commercial production – electrical energy is being produced,” – mentioned Mr. Seyda in the course of the celebrations on the occasion of opening the SPP.

    On 3rd of October the Chornobyl NPP was visited by representatives of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (hereinafter – NRC) led by the NRC’s Commissioner the Honorable Stephen G. Burns. The U.S. colleagues were accompanied by the Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (hereinafter – SNRIU) Hryhorii Plachkov and SNRIU’s staff.

    The Commissioner and his attendants visited the Interim Spent Fuel Dry-type Storage Facility (ISF-2) where they were briefed on the technologies for the SNF management and storage, as well as techniques that will ensure the technological process after the ISF-2 commissioning. Also they went to see the New Safe Confinement (NSC) construction site and the space under the NSC’s Arch. The guests were mostly interested in the further actions regarding the existing Shelter Object, in particular, plans of dismantling the Shelter’s unstable structures and bringing it into the state of environmentally safe system. In addition, the guests visited the ChNPP former satellite city Prypiat.

    UNDP delegation led by Ms. Osnat Lubrani, UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) in Ukraine, visited the Chornobyl NPP with a familiarization visit. The visit took place within the official opening of the Information Center "Chornobyl: the Territory of Change" coordinated by the State Enterprise "Center for Organizational, Technical and Information Support of the Exclusion Zone Management".

    The guests visited the New Safe Confinement observation pavilion and the construction site of the Dry-type Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2), where ChNPP Technical Director (-Chief Engineer) Andrii Bilyk provided them with the details of these Projects implementation, the status of work progress to date. He also answered numerous questions about the Plant’s history and about the Chornobyl accident and elimination of its consequences, in particular the Shelter Object construction and its transformation into environmentally safe system.

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    2. Exhibit items of Chornobyl NPP are presented at stand “CHORNOBYL: The Territory of Change” at the international exhibition in Vienna
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    4. Valeriy Seyda was appointed to the position of SSE ChNPP Acting General Director

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