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Facility to host spent fuel from three nuclear stations The CSFSF is located in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Image courtesy Energoatom. Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear operator Energoatom announced it has received from the national regulatory authority the operating permit for the centralised spent nuclear fuel storage facility (CSFSF) near the Chernobyl nuclear power station.

The repository is the first consolidated interim storage facility for Russian VVER reactor fuel. Construction began in 2017, although initial contracts with main contractor US-based Holtec International were signed in 2005.

Energoatom said the CSFSF was completed in 2020 and entered test operation mode. The official operating permit was expected on 9 March 2022, but the recent occupation by Russian forces of the Chernobyl nuclear station and exclusion zone delayed the plans.

Date: Friday, 29 April 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/energoatom-granted-permit-to-operate-centralised-fuel-repository-at-chernobyl-4-4-2022

Power company Ukrenergo says hostilities making it impossible to restore power supply The Chernobyl nuclear station and all nuclear facilities in the exclusion zone have been left without electricity. Courtesy Chornobyl NPP. Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has called for a ceasefire to allow repairs to be carried out to restore the electricity supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power station and facilities within the 30-km exclusion zone around the shut-down facility.

Ukraine’s state power operator Energoatom earlier said Russian forces have disconnected the nuclear power station – which does not have any reactors in commercial operation – from the grid. The state-run company said a high-voltage line had been damaged by Russian forces and had been disconnected.

As a result, the Chernobyl station and all nuclear facilities in the exclusion zone were left without electricity, Energoatom said, warning that the situation could lead to the release of radioactive substances.

Energoatom said the loss of power “makes it impossible to control the parameters of nuclear and radiation safety at the plant”. Energy minister Herman Halushchenko confirmed safety data was no longer being received from the plant.

Earlier this week, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU said safety and security parameters at Chernobyl were normal, but several neutron flux, gamma radiation dose rate and radiation pollution sensors at the New Safe Confinement (NSC) shelter failed, making it impossible to control a number of radiation parameters, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU said.

Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/kyiv-calls-for-russian-ceasefire-to-allow-repairs-at-chernobyl-3-3-2022

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, held talks in Turkey with Ukraine's foreign minister and Russia's foreign minister and said "we are making progress on the safety and security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine". 

Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-chief-in-Turkey-for-talks-on-Ukraine-nuclear

Regional authorities confirm that the six-unit facility in southeast Ukraine has been seized by Russian forces The fire broke out in a training building outside the station in the early hours of Friday, after being shelled by Russian forces, Ukrainian authorities said.

What is the significance of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station?

Date: Saturday, 05 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-what-s-happening-at-europe-s-largest-nuclear-power-station-3-5-2022

‘No casualties or destruction’ at location of 1986 accident, IAEA reports The site of the Cnernobyl nuclear power plant near the Ukraine's border with Belarus. The site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant close to Ukraine’s border with Belarus has been captured by Russian troops, according to an advisor to the Ukrainian president’s office quoted by Reuters.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted yesterday that Russian forces were trying to seize the Chernobyl station, site of the 1986 nuclear accident.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that Ukraine had informed the agency that “unidentified armed forces” had taken control of all facilities of the state-owned Chernobyl NPP enterprise, located within the exclusion zone. The facilities include the shut-down Units 1, 2, and 3, the destroyed Unit 4 and a two recently constructed spent nuclear fuel storage facilities.

Date: Saturday, 26 February 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/chernobyl-nuclear-site-captured-by-russian-forces-says-president-s-office-2-5-2022

Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator, Energoatom, is conducting the final pre-commissioning trials of the Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The company's acting president recently inspected simulation tests of the removal of nuclear fuel from unit 3 of the Rovno nuclear power plant using technology supplied by Holtec International of the USA. The transfer of fuel to the CSFSF is scheduled to begin next year.

Date: Friday, 19 November 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Transfer-of-used-fuel-to-Ukrainian-facility-set-to

The ISF-2 interim storage facility at Chernobyl. Courtesy EBRD. Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU has issued a permit to SSE Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) for the retrieval of undamaged used nuclear fuel from the ISF-1 interim used fuel wet storage facility.

The fuel will be moved to the new €400m ISF-2 interim storage facility, which was given a licence by SNRIU for full operation earlier this year.

ISF-2 was built by an international consortium led by the US company Holtec and financed by the international community through the Nuclear Safety Account, managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Date: Friday, 28 May 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/ukraine-regulator-issues-permit-for-fuel-transfer-to-new-isf-2-facility-5-4-2021

Ukraine's nuclear regulator has issued a permit to SSE Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) for the retrieval of undamaged used nuclear fuel from the ISF-1 interim used fuel wet storage facility. The fuel will be moved into the new ISF-2 dry storage facility. The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) has also issued a licence for the operation of the Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant at the Chernobyl site.

Date: Thursday, 27 May 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Permit-issued-for-Chernobyl-used-fuel-transfer

Thirty-five years on from the Chernobyl accident, Ukraine and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have highlighted their commitment to cooperation in nuclear power. Meanwhile Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has launched the start of operations at a new storage facility for used nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl site.  

Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Title

Holtec International has announced that the second double-walled canister (DWC) had been loaded with RBMK reactor used nuclear fuel into the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) site’s Interim Storage Facility (ISF-2) in Ukraine yesterday.

Date: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-starts-loading-RBMK-fuel-into-Interim-Stor