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Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 1 April that it was “analysing the possibility” of resuming regulatory control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, after Russian forces withdrew from the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-director-general-concludes-meetings-in-ukraine-and-russia-9599472
Latest updates, 1 April:
• Ukraine says Russian forces, who took control of Chernobyl on 24 February, have left and handed it back to Ukraine
• IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi holds talks in Kaliningrad with Russian officials about nuclear safety in Ukraine
• He says he will head an IAEA "assistance and support mission" mission to Chernobyl "as soon as possible"
• He said that the IAEA had agreed a safety framework, agreed separately with Ukraine and with Russia
• The World Association of Nuclear Operators has transferred Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom from its Moscow to its Paris centre
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 02 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-says-Russian-forces-have-left-Chernobyl
The head of Ukraine’s Energoatom told the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday that power could be restored to Chernobyl after workers fixed the damaged power line - but on Monday Ukraine's energy company reported it was damaged again "before the power supply was fully restored".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Efforts-continue-to-restore-power-to-Chernobyl
Russia's readiness to replace the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) its workers dropped during installation work in August at unit 1 of Belarus' first nuclear power plant, reflects the fact this is a public acceptance matter rather than a technological concern, Rosatom director general Sergey Kirienko said yesterday. Kirienko spoke to reporters during the International Atomic Energy Agency's 60th General Conference being held this week in Vienna.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Belarus-RPV-change-is-public-acceptance-matter,-sa