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    On August 24, on parade on the occasion of the Independence Day in Kiev, military units and formations which demonstrated courage and heroism and proved themselves in military operations in eastern Ukraine, were conferred with honorary titles and awarded with Colours. One of 30 Colours the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Lieutenant-General Yuriy Allerov, handed to the commander of the military unit 3041, securing and protecting strategically important facility - Chornobyl NPP. It should be noted that among all the military units, securing nuclear power plants in Ukraine, the honor of receiving the Colour was awarded only to our unit (3041).

    The Colours of the military unit is an honorary symbol, demonstrating specificity of its military mission, history and merits and testifies about the identity of the military unit to the Defence Establishment of Ukraine.

    The ceremony in honor of the Colours arrival was held on August 28, on the parade ground of the military unit 3041 in Slavutych.

    The ceremony was attended by the head of the unit, Colonel Andriy Frolov, Mayor of Slavutich Yuriy Fomichev, ChNPP Deputy Director General for Personnel and Physical protection Yevgen Katunin, head of the Slavutych Police Department, Prior of St. Iliya Church and others.

    To maintain a reliable fire-prevention regime during construction and installation work at Chornobyl NPP site, at different facilities, emergency response groups constantly perform inspections and briefings for the personnel.

    On August 8, 2017, specialists from Chornobyl NPP Emergency Management Department of the 11th State Fire and Rescue Unit (Chernobyl town) controlled implementation of temporary fire works in the electric devices building in SSE ChNPP, which is under construction as part of New Safe Confinement (NSC) construction project.

    Inspection established that fire works are carried out in compliance with the requirements of the Fire Safety Rules of Ukraine, Guidelines for fire works safe performance at fire and explosion-hazardous and explosive facilities, as well as facility-based instruction on organization of fire works safe performance at SSE "Chornobyl NPP" facilities.

    In order to improve the fire safety level at the enterprise, additional fire safety briefings were carried out for personnel and specialists of contractors performing construction and installation work.

    In the framework of implementing the project relating to construction of the Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant (LRTP) at Chernobyl NPP, on August 7, 2017, according to the results of open tendering, a contract was concluded with CC “Ukrbudmontazh” to perform activities associated with its completion and bringing the fire systems in compliance with effective regulatory structure.

    Construction of LRTP was carried out at the expense of international technical assistance from Nuclear Safety Account funds and was suspended due to depletion of the allocated budget. Resumption and completion of LRTP from national budget of Ukraine became available after the approval of the updated project.

    Work performance under the contract with CC “Ukrbudmontazh” will enable to commission the facility and commence treatment of liquid RAW on SSE ChNPP site. Completion of works under the contract is scheduled for May 2018.

    For more details about Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant, please click here.

    Volunteers of the Clean Future Fund continue their activities under the project of sterilization of stray dogs in the Exclusion zone.

    During the first week a veterinary hospital has been organized with operating units and premises for temporary maintenance of animals in the remote area of the industrial site in a premise, which is not used for production needs, with the help of SSE ChNPP and SE ChNPP FSD employees. Within the period of 5 days, from July 31 till August 4, volunteers caught 44 stray dogs and some puppies.

    As of August 4, 35 animals were sterilized by veterinarians-specialists involved in the work of the Fund. Every dog ​​that has been sterilized was chipped. After a three-day rehabilitation period, chipped animals were released into their natural surroundings.

    Thereby, in the morning of August 7, employees of the Chornobyl NPP could see their four-legged friends near the Semikhody change facility and in other familiar areas and make sure with their own eyes that the operated dogs feel themselves quite satisfactory.

    The first stage of the comprehensive ISF-2 testing with Spent Fuel Assemblies simulators is started on August 1, 2017. The work is carried out in accordance with the Test Program agreed with SNRIU of Ukraine.

    This important stage was preceded by a long and complicated work on implementation of construction and assembly and pre-commissioning, individual (acceptance) testing of equipment, comprehensive testing of auxiliary systems, as well as complex testing of one of the most important system for the facility operation - the Transport container handling system.

    1. NSC construction Project: equipment testing is underway
    2. ISF-2 Project: preparations for comprehensive tests of the equipment are underway
    3. Radioactive Waste Management Fund
    4. One more step has been taken in the implementation of ISF-2 Construction Project

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