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Ukraine told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 19 May that new wildfires in the area near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) did not pose a radioactive threat to people, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. Ukraine said the gamma dose rate levels in the vicinity of the Chernobyl NPP were “not exceeding the reference levels”.

Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschernobyl-wildfires-pose-no-radioactive-threat-9722986

The staff currently working at Chernobyl have been on site for two weeks, but following the departure of Russian forces, Ukraine said it was preparing to bring in a new shift.

Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-prepares-to-rotate-Chernobyl-staff

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

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".

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Efforts-continue-to-restore-power-to-Chernobyl

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

Kremlin forces have taken over Chernobyl and areas around Zaporozhye NPP Kremlin forces have taken over Chernobyl and areas around Zaporozhye nuclear power station (pictured). Courtesy Rosenergoatom. The European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group has urged Russia to restore the Ukrainian nuclear regulator’s control over all nuclear facilities and materials within Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders, in line with internationally recognised safety standards and security guidance.

The independent expert advisory group said it had held an extraordinary meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Association of Regulators of Western Europe (Wenra) and the Ukrainian nuclear regulator SNRIU to address the safety of Ukrainian nuclear installations in view of the Russian Federation’s “military aggression”.

It noted that the IAEA’s 2009 general conference adopted a decision that “any armed attack on and threat against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes constitutes a violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter, international law and the Statute of the Agency”.

Ensreg appealed for maximum restraint to avoid any action which may put the country’s nuclear facilities at risk.

Date: Friday, 04 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/european-regulators-call-for-russia-to-hand-back-control-of-nuclear-facilities-3-4-2022

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has provided Belarus with a mobile laboratory for assessing radiological threats associated with forest fires in the Polessie State Radio-Ecological Reserve, adjacent to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Recent fires in the exclusion zone did not lead to a hazardous increase in air-borne radioactive particles.

Date: Friday, 29 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-equips-Belarus-with-mobile-radiation-monitori

The recent fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have not led to a hazardous increase in air-borne radioactive particles, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 24 April. The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) has regularly provided information on the fires through the IAEA's Unified System for Information Exchange in Incidents and Emergencies (USIE).

Date: Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chernobyl-forest-fires-pose-no-health-risk-says-IA

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