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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant have signed Grant Agreement No.2 designed to help "solve the most urgent and critical needs" at the site.

Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EBRD-signs-new-grant-agreement-for-next-stage-of-C

The international community is to provide up to EUR1.1 million (USD1.1 million) for the procurement of essential fire safety equipment at the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. The Russian military occupation of the area led to the destruction or looting of specialised firefighting and forestry equipment.

Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Funding-to-bolster-fire-safety-at-Chernobyl

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has asked for international donors to help repair the damage left after Russian forces' control of the Chernobyl area earlier this year.

Date: Friday, 20 May 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EBRD-puts-cost-of-Russian-occupation-of-Chernobyl

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

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced that the first canister of used nuclear fuel had been loaded into the Interim Storage Facilty 2 (ISF-2) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Date: Friday, 20 November 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-canister-of-used-fuel-loaded-at-chernobyl-storage-facility-8369174

The keys for the New Safe Confinement (NSC) shielding unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were symbolically presented to the Ukrainian authorities yesterday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced.

Date: Thursday, 11 July 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Keys-to-Chernobyl-shielding-passed-to-Ukraine

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has led international efforts to transform the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Here, Balthasar Lindauer, director of the London-headquartered bank's Nuclear Safety Department, gives an insight into the change in safety culture at the plant.

Date: Monday, 10 June 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Chernobyl-and-a-very-modern-safety-cultu

State Specialised Enterprise ChNPP said yesterday that the first 10 canisters for the dry interim fuel storage facility (ISF-2) had been delivered to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. ISF2 is in the final construction stage under a contract Ukraine signed with US-based Holtec International in 2007. To be completed this year, it will be used to store all the used fuel on the site for at least 100 years.

Date: Friday, 27 November 2015
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Holtec-delivers-first-dry-storage-canisters-to-Che

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