Today, during a video conference, the executive management of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, SSE «Chornobyl NPP» and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development discussed the implementation of international projects under quarantine.

On April 23, the Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management held a video conference with the participation of Sergii Kalashnyk, Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, and Roman Abramovsky, Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection.

In the opening speech, acting Head of the SAUEZM Kateryna Pavlova noted that Chornobyl experts and the territory are the most valuable and special that is available in the SAUEZM. Almost 6,000 employees and over 2,600 square kilometers of the territory.

Among the main accents discussed during the meeting between the Acting Head of SAUEZM Kateryna Pavlova and the mayor of Slavutych Yuri Fomichev were the development of common infrastructure, scientific and tourist potential.

During the International Civil Nuclear Showcase 2020 conference in London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), experts from the SAUEZM and the Exclusion Zone enterprises presented Ukraine's experience in the field of radioactive waste management and spent nuclear fuel.

In 2019, State specialized enterprise «Central enterprise for radioactive waste management»successfully fulfilled the plan for elimination of trenches and bursts of points of temporary localization of radioactive waste and disposed 4750 m3 of radioactive waste at Buryakivka disposal point. These works were carried out under the budget program «Maintaining an environmentally safe state in the exclusion zone and zone of unconditional (mandatory) resettlement».

Immediately after the resonant statement of Land Relations Commissioner for the President of Ukraine Roman Leshchenko on cultivation of agricultural products on Chornobyl lands and satellite images, Acting Head of SAUEZM Kateryna Pavlova initiated and organized a «search expedition» to the Exclusion zone for identification of signs of agricultural activity.

In pursuance of Presidential Decree No.87/2020 regarding prevention of the COVID-19 coronavirus distribution, ChNPP administration made a decision to transfer the Plant’s personnel to special regime of employment starting from March 19.

To ensure safe storage of «historical»radioactive waste a special site for this type of waste was created at the «Buryakivka» RWDP located in the Exclusion Zone.

In order to prevent the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus infection, taking into account the Government's decision and the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, it was decided, on March 18, to suspend the visits to the Exclusion zone and zone of unconditional (mandatory) resettlement for visitors until the until the end of the quarantine.

During a working trip to the Exclusion zone Acting Head of the State agency of Ukraine on Exclusion zone management Kateryna Pavlova together with the Heads of the SSE «Pivnichna Pushcha» inspected the creation of mineralized strips along the perimeter of the Exclusion zone in the Dytiatkiv Forestry and got acquainted with the general state of implementation of the complex of works for preparation for the fire season.

Representatives of the Law Institute of Kwansai-Gakuin University were welcomed at State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management to discuss issues related to the legal aspects of the management of contaminated territories.