Upon invitation of the State Nuclear
Regulatory Committee on 12-16 March, 2007 the technical group of IAEA experts
worked in Ukraine.
The work of group was realized in frame of "Nuclear safety" fund
program and aimed to technical audit of exposure installations which contain
the spent high-level ionizing sources and are under action of the state
program "Providing of safety storage of spent high-level ionizing
sources" approved by decree of Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine dated
03.08.06 № 1092. As IAEA experts this mission also included specialists
of manufacturing company "Izotop" (Moscow, Russian
Federation) winch have sufficient positive
experience of performance of works on safe dismantling of similar
installations. During this work the installations at "Radon"
complex in Kiev and Odessa have been inspected. Upon inspection
results the recommendations concerning safe performance of works on removal
of spent ionizing sources from installations and transfer
them to the safe storage should be developed by experts. Also experts shall
submit to IAEA the calculation of essential technical assistance.