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Update 24 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
MAR 17 2022
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that all safety systems at the country’s largest nuclear power plant remained fully functional a day after the site lost connection to a third external power line linking it to the national electricity grid, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
Two off-site power lines, including one on standby, are still available to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and there are no safety concerns, Ukraine’s regulatory authority added. ...
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Update 28 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
21 Mar 2022
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the long-delayed rotation of technical staff at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was completed today, enabling them to go home and rest for the first time since Russian forces took control of the site last month, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
... An agreement had been reached on how to organize future staff rotations at the NPP, where various radioactive waste management facilities are located, it said.
Director General Grossi, who had repeatedly expressed deep concern about the well-being of the Ukrainian staff at the Chornobyl NPP, welcomed the completion of the staff rotation and again praised them for their courage and tireless efforts in carrying out their vital work tasks during extremely difficult and stressful conditions in the presence of foreign military forces. ...
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Firefighters were trying to extinguish wildfires near #Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, #Ukraine told the IAEA.
Slight increases in caesium air concentrations detected in Kyiv and at two nuclear power plants, but they did not pose significant radiological concerns, it said.
2:25 PM · Mar 23, 2022 7h
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IAEA is continuing to engage with #Ukraine’s regulator to obtain further information about the fire situation near the #Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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Wildfires break out in Chernobyl amid a non-functioning radiation-monitoring system
March 23, 2022
By Susan D’Agostino
Seven wildfires have broken out in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, according to a statement by Ukraine’s Parliament. The fires, which were observed via satellite, exceed Ukraine’s emergency classification criteria tenfold. Ukrainian officials stated that the fires were caused by “the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, namely the shelling or arson,” though this has not been independently verified. Wildfires risk mobilizing and dispersing radioactive contaminants left over from the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
Ukrainian firefighters have been unable to access the area since Russia took control in the first days of the war. Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear company, also reported this week that Chernobyl’s radiation monitoring system is no longer working. Without the data that system would provide, radiation levels in the region may rise unchecked. Though the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer operational, it requires constant management.
Ukraine’s State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management also reported this week that the Russian military destroyed a six-million-euro laboratory that, in part, worked to improve radioactive waste management, according to the Associated Press. The lab contained “highly active samples and samples of radionuclides” that could have been released, according to the agency.
Seasonal wildfires are common during spring and summer in the region surrounding Chernobyl. ...
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23/03/2022
Zaporizhzhya power plant in Ukraine: Arrangements in the event of a total loss of external power supplies
IRSN publishes a new information report providing details of the arrangements planned in the event of a total loss of external supplies at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
The plant is currently connected to the Ukrainian electricity grid by two of the four 750 kV lines available. Two lines are currently unavailable due to the fighting; a third one was temporarily unavailable but was repaired on the evening of March 18, 2022. The power plant is also connected to the Ukrainian 330 kV grid, to which the Zaporizhzhya thermal power plant and the Dnipro and Kakhovka hydroelectric power plants are connected nearby. This 330 kV line is currently available.
The Zaporizhzhya NPP provides electricity to the Ukrainian power grid but when its reactors are shut down, the Ukrainian power grid provides power for its monitoring and backup systems. The availability of these external power supplies is therefore an important issue for ensuring the safety of the reactors.
On the basis of the information available to IRSN, the resources planned for the Zaporizhzhya power plant would enable the site teams, in the event of failure of the islanding transient, to cope with a situation of total loss of external power supplies for a period of at least 10 days. This conclusion is subject to the reliability of the equipment implemented, their initial fuel supply, the availability of crews and the absence of other factors that could aggravate the situation.
Download IRSN information report from March 22, 2022 "Arrangements in the event of a total loss of external power supplies of the Zaporizhzhya power plant in Ukraine" (PDF)
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Update 31 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
MAR 24 2022
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that Russian forces were shelling Ukrainian checkpoints in the city of Slavutych where many people working at the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) live, putting them at risk and preventing further rotation of personnel to and from the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
Ukraine’s regulatory authority said the shelling was endangering “the homes and families of those operational personnel that ensure the nuclear and radiation safety” of the Chornobyl NPP, which is under the control of Russian forces since 24 February. Slavutych is located outside the Exclusion Zone that was established around the NPP after the 1986 accident.
Director General Grossi expressed concern about this development, which comes just a few days after technical staff at the Chornobyl NPP were finally able to rotate and go to their homes in Slavutych and rest after working for nearly four weeks without a change of shift, and he said the IAEA would continue to closely monitor the situation. Staff now working at the site also come from Slavutych.
Earlier today, the regulator also informed the IAEA that it does not expect wildfires burning in the vicinity of the Chornobyl NPP to cause any significant radiological concern, a day after the country’s regulator said Ukrainian firefighters were trying to extinguish blazes in the area. ...
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Russian troops 'firing at nuclear reactor' as minister warns of 'major disaster' - Kharkiv's Institute of Physics and Technology
23:05, 26 Mar 2022
UPDATED 23:07, 26 Mar 2022
Russian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said.
The nation's parliament announced it was not possible to estimate the damage due to the ongoing clashes in the area.
It comes two weeks after a previous Russian attack on Kharkiv's Institute of Physics and Technology, which is home to a nuclear reactor core.
A Ukrainian politician warned that the latest shelling risked a 'major environmental disaster'.
The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine said: "The continuation of its bombardment can lead to severe radiation consequences with contamination of nearby territories."
Emine Dzheppar, Ukraine's first deputy minister of foreign affairs, added: "The Russian aggressor fired rocket 'Grad' systems on the territory of the Kharkiv Institute, where the nuclear installation 'Source of Neutrons' is located, in the active zone of which 37 fuel nuclear cells were loaded. ...
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⚡️ Kharkiv nuclear research reactor hit by Russian shelling.
The nuclear research reactor at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has come under renewed Russian fire.
Ukrainian authorities have not yet been able to assess damage to the site, due to constant shelling.
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UN nuclear watchdog chief in Ukraine to talk safety support
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says its director-general has arrived in Ukraine for talks with senior government officials on delivering “urgent technical assistance” to ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities
ByThe Associated Press
29 March 2022, 08:50
LVIV, Ukraine -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog's director-general arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for talks with senior government officials on delivering “urgent technical assistance” to ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities, the agency said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Rafael Mariano Grossi’s aim is to “to initiate prompt safety and security support” for Ukraine’s nuclear sites. That will include sending IAEA experts to “prioritized facilities,” which it didn't identify, and sending “vital safety and security supplies” including monitoring and emergency equipment..._____________________________________________
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Russian troops leaving Chernobyl nuclear site 'have acute radiation sickness'
20:57, 30 Mar 2022
UPDATED 23:08, 30 Mar 2022
Russian troops leaving the Chernobyl nuclear site have 'acute radiation sickness', it has been claimed.
The Pentagon confirmed Russian troops were pulling out of the irradiated nuclear wasteland, but an employee at the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management said they were running away "irradiated".
He said they were being transported by the bus load to a special radiation medical centre in Gomel, Belarus to help treat their radioactive poisoning.
In a post on facebook, Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who worked to keep the site safe, said: "Another batch of radiation irradiation of Russian terrorists who captured the Chernobylzone, was brought to the Belarusian center of radiation medicine in Gomel today.
"Digging the trenches in the Rudu forest, bitches? Now live the rest of your short life with this. There are rules of handling this territory.
"They are mandatory to perform because radiation is physics - it works regardless of status or chases. If you have minimal intelligence in command or soldiers, these consequences could have been avoided."
He went onto quote a Belarusian TV channel which said "about 7 medical PAZs arrived at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology.
...This shocking revelation comes as US intelligence confirmed Russian soldiers have withdrawn from the site....
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7 busses with Russian soldiers suffering from Acute Radiation Syndrome have arrived to a hospital in Belarus from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
They allegedly dug trenches in the highly radioactive Red Forest - UNIAN News
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4:53 PM · Mar 30, 2022 · Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1509287796065845250
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