Official Statement of Purpose for SSE Chernobyl NPP

Currently, the flow of news is slow, so the following description, from the Charter of SSE Chernobyl NPP, was recently published as the official purpose of the State Specialized Enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant:

The State Specialized Enterprise “Chernobyl NPP” (SSE ChNPP) is the enterprise supervising the decommissioning of power plant units and transforming the Shelter Object into an environmentally safe system. SSE ChNPP was created as part of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant according to Decree #1084/2000 of the President of Ukraine dated September 25, 2000 and by Decree #399 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated April 25, 2001.

Chernobyl NPP is the operating organization (operator) of nuclear installations at this nuclear power plant. The operator oversees the stages of power unit decommissioning, overcoming accident consequences and managing the facilities for Radioactive Wastes Management and temporary storages according to the legislation of Ukraine.

The main tasks of Chernobyl NPP are the following:

Ensuring the safe operation of nuclear installations, facilities for radioactive wastes management and other equipment of this nuclear power plant
The safe decommissioning of Chernobyl NPP Units 1, 2, 3 and nuclear power plants of Ukraine;
Shelter Object transformation into an ecologically safe system;
Ensuring safety during management of radioactive wastes accumulated at the site of this NPP and the Exclusion zone of Chernobyl NPP and also wastes generating during decommissioning and Shelter Object transformation into ecological safe system;
Ensuring safety during Chernobyl NPP’s spent nuclear fuel management;
Construction and operation of infrastructure facilities necessary for Chernobyl NPP decommissioning and Shelter Object transformation into an ecologically safe system;
Personnel training and skills improvement;
Environmental monitoring in the zone of Chernobyl NPP location;
Technologies development, accumulation and use of scientific and technical experience related to decommissioning of nuclear installations, overcoming of beyond designed accident consequences and construction and use of storage facilities for radioactive waste temporary and long term storage;
Organization, coordination and implementation of scientific-applied researches, introduction of scientific technical and other developments, making contacts with scientific institutions, including foreign ones;
Participation in the works coordination and implementation within the international projects related to decommissioning of Chernobyl NPP and Shelter Object transformation into environmentally safe system.