Inudeco 2023 Сonference in Slavutych

    On April 27-28, 2023, the VIII International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning and Environmental Recovery INUDECO 2023 was held in the city of Slavutych, in the online format of an open discussion using the Zoom resource. This year, the theme of the conference is “INUDECO. Nuclear energy: the challenges of war”.

      One of the co-organizers of the conference is the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (ISP NPP of the NAS of Ukraine).

      165 people representing 30 institutions from 20 countries of the world took part in the conference. The conference lasted 2 days, during which time 63 reports were heard.

      The conference was opened by the speeches of the mayor of Slavutych city, Yurii Fomichev, director of the ISP NPP of the NAS of Ukraine, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Anatolii Nosovskyi, head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, Yevgenii Kramarenko, Technical director (Chief engineer) of the Chornobyl NPP, Oleksandr Tytarchuk.

      Director of the ISP NPP of the NAS of Ukraine, Anatolii Nosovsky, conveyed to the participants of the conference greetings from the President of the NAS of Ukraine, Academician Anatolii Zagorodnyi. In his speech, he particularly noted that the experience of the nuclear power industry during the war in Ukraine is unique and needs to be analyzed and recommendations developed to improve the readiness of nuclear facilities to ensure security during a military threat. In addition, Anatolii Nosovskyi expressed his sincere gratitude to fellow scientists from Poland, Japan, the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, China and other countries for the charitable, material and technical assistance provided to our scientific institutions, and whose actions help Ukrainian scientists to fulfill scientific research in this very difficult time for Ukrainian science.

      The moderators of the conference were Aryna Starovoitova – Director of the Regional Development Agency of Slavutych; Maksym Saveliev – Senior researcher of the ISP NPP of the NAS of Ukraine; Danylo Lavrenov is the Executive secretary of the Ukrainian Nuclear Society.

      The scientific community, as well as international organizations in the nuclear sphere, analyzed the experience of the war in Ukraine, talked about nuclear generation in the conditions of post-war recovery, nuclear and radiation safety of the country, as well as the development and social challenges of satellite cities at the current stage, discussed the issue of handling radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, the state of implementation of the project to transform the Shelter object into an ecologically safe system, decommissioning of nuclear power plants.

      17 reports were presented with the participation of scientists of the ISP NPP of the NAS of Ukraine, namely:

• Development of nuclear energy in Ukraine – prospects and problems. – Head of the department, Dr. Tech. Sc. Volodymyr Borysenko.

• Phase composition of polychrome ceramics of lava-like fuel-containing materials of the Chornobyl NPP. – Head of the department, Dr. Tech. Sc. Serhii Gabielkov.

• The impact of the occupation of the Chernobyl zone on groundwater pollution. – Head of the sector, PhD. Tech. Sc. Mykola Panasiuk.

  Chornobyl: changing the narrative from disaster to space exploration. – Senior researcher, PhD. Biol. Sc. Olena Pareniuk.

• The general concept of extracting fuel-containing materials from the lower elevations of the “Shelter” object using the laser fragmentation method. – Oleksandr Proskurin, leading engineer.

• Modified polarization potential for modeling the interaction between ions in uranyl 〖UO〗_2^(2+). – Head of the laboratory, PhD. Phys.-Math. Sc. Ihor Zhyganiuk.

• Effects of reactivity at “reverse” criticality in accumulations of fuel-containing materials. – Kostyantyn Sushchenko, a junior researcher.

• Justification of the relevance of the problem of handling irradiated graphite of nuclear installations. – Head of the sector, Dr. Tech. Sc. Kostiantyn Simeiko.

• Study of radioactive emissions through technological holes in the roof of the Shelter object in the conditions of a New Safe Confinement. – Head of the laboratory, PhD. Tech. Sc. Oleksandr Kalinovskyi.

• Prediction of air pollution in working areas during work in the internal volume of the NSC-SO complex. – head of the department Leonid Pavlovskyi.

• Further transformation of the Shelter object into an ecologically safe system after the commissioning of the New Safe Confinement. – Head of the department, PhD. Tech. Sc. Valerii Derengovskyi.

• Influence of NSC on temperature dynamics in FCM accumulations in rooms 305/2 and 304/3. – Head of the sector Anatolii Doroshenko.

• An alternative approach to determining access routes for personnel in areas of work at the NSC-SO. – Serhii Kupriianchuk, a junior researcher.

• Use of ACP devices in the event of a radiation accident as a result of military operations. – leading engineer Serhii Ievlev.

• A device for evaluating the emission of radionuclides during biomass burning. – leading engineer Andrii Novikov.

• MCNP-model of formation of the current of the background core of the direct charge detector. – senior researcher, PhD. Tech. Sc. Vadym Goranchuk.

• Scientific and technical support at the stage of construction and commissioning of the Centralized Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel. – head of the Division Volodymyr Rudko.

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