Month: August 2022

     Nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities are objects of peaceful use of nuclear energy, not intended for combat operations and should not be subject to military attack. With its actions related to the shelling and seizure of nuclear facilities at the Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia NPPs, as well as the bombing of the “Neutron Source” research nuclear facility in Kharkiv, the Russian Federation violated all world principles of nuclear safety.      During the hostilities on March 4, the city of Enerhodar and the site of the Zaporizhzhia…

    During the occupation of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone by Russian troops, the unique laboratories (http://www.ispnpp.kiev.ua/pro-naslidky-rashizmu/) of the Institute for Safety Problems of NPP of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, located in the city of Chornobyl, were destroyed.      However, thanks to the help of fellow scientists from the University of Bristol (UK), the ISP NPP scientists will be able to partially restore their laboratories. The University of Bristol donated a gamma-spectrometer, computers and other equipment as humanitarian aid to the ISP NPP. Scientists from the…

     It is well known that from the end of February to 31 March, the Exclusion Zone of the Chornobyl NPP, and consequently all facilities on its territory, was under the control of the Russian military. As a result, almost all the property in most of the offices and laboratories of the Institute located in the city of Chornobyl was destroyed.      On 18 July 2022, the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants received humanitarian aid from the Association “Ukrainians in Karlsruhe” (Deutsch-Ukrainischer Verein “Ukrainer in…