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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”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschernobyl-wildfires-pose-no-radioactive-threat-9722986
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, on 28 April, returning from Ukraine, briefed journalists on his visit to the Chernobyl NPP, including the results of initial radiation monitoring conducted by IAEA experts in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and his talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-director-general-returns-from-ukraine-report-issued-9669727
The head of Ukrainian nuclear power operator Energoatom, Petro Kotin, has told EnergoBusiness that the Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is ready and could start accepting spent fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-s-centralised-spent-fuel-storage-facility
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said it was of "paramount importance" to assist Ukraine in ensuring safety in the area - it follows footage of what appears to have been trenches dug by Russian forces in contaminated land in the exclusion zone.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 09 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-seeks-urgent-visit-to-assess-radiation-levels
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 02 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-says-Russian-forces-have-left-Chernobyl
“We demand that the UN Security Council immediately take measures to demilitarise the Chernobyl exclusion zone and introduce a special UN mission there to eliminate the risk of the repeat of a nuclear catastrophe,” she said.
Her appeal came as International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi remained in Ukraine for talks with senior government officials on the agency’s planned delivery of urgent technical assistance to ensure the safety and security of the country’s nuclear facilities and help avert the risk of an accident that could endanger people and the environment.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 31 March 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/deputy-pm-calls-for-russian-forces-to-leave-chernobyl-3-3-2022
Ukraine's nuclear regulatory authority has warned that the annual "fire season" at Chernobyl is approaching and says that the usual firefighting capacity is not available as a result of the Russian occupation.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-seeks-information-about-forest-fires-near-Che
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
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.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/kyiv-calls-for-russian-ceasefire-to-allow-repairs-at-chernobyl-3-3-2022