The process of preparation for the review of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by IAEA experts under the OSART program, which is scheduled for October 2022, began in advance and it is on schedule. The forthcoming visit of IAEA experts is aimed primarily at ensuring further safety level.
The IAEA Preparatory Process is divided into three sectors. In addition to production sector, focused on 12 areas, there are two additional sectors- financial and economic; and organizational and economic.
Representatives of Zaporizhzhia NPP in a video conference format took part in a meeting held by the leaders of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) on the implementation of a new project “Focus on Excellence”. The meeting was attended by 78 managers and specialists.
WANO is implementing a new direction “Focus on Excellence”. A strategic plan has been developed. There is a special classifier that evaluates the activities of nuclear power plants. Pilot plants have already been identified in Armenia, Russia, the Czech Republic and Finland.
On August 18, 2021, the international scientific-practical conference “30 years of safety: achievements, priorities and plans” took place.
The event was attended by leading experts in the field of nuclear power industry, industry veterans and international partners of the NPP Operator of Ukraine - representatives of the IAEA, WANO, Westinghouse, Polenergia, Framatome.
Zaporizhzhia NPP hosted the ALARA Committee Meeting, which summed up the results of radiation protection and radiation safety in 2020 and outlined further areas of activities.
The monitoring of individual and collective doses of external radiation to the personnel of Zaporizhzhia NPP and contractors is carried out on the basis of the ALARA principle formulated by the IAEA. The implementation of the ALARA methodology is one of the important elements of the safety culture at nuclear power plants.
The process of preparation for the review of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by IAEA experts under the OSART program, which is scheduled for September 2021, started in advance and is going on according to plan. The forthcoming visit of IAEA experts is aimed first of all at ensuring a further increase of safety level.
Fuming Jiang, IAEA nuclear
A week-long training workshop on “Leadership in Nuclear Power Industry” started at Zaporizhzhia NPP, and it was held by representatives of the WANO Moscow Center in cooperation with Zaporizhzhia NPP. The workshop was held for NPP senior and middle management, heads of the utility departments, as well as managers and instructors of training centers for their training purpose.
In the framework of the 9th International scientific-practical conference on NPP safety culture, which took place on 9-10 of April 2019 in Kyiv, a traditional ceremony of award of SE “NNEGC “Energoatom” best specialists and structural subdivisions was held.
In Separated Entity “Zaporizhzhia NPP”:
- the best safety culture power unit – Unit 5 – Dmytro Verbytsky - unit supervisor ;
- the best safety culture NPP shift – shift «G» – Volodymyr Kaplonsky - NPP shift supervisor;
Анкетування персоналу підрозділів ВП ЗАЕС з питань культури безпеки (КБ) проводиться для виконання вимог документа 00.АБ.ПМ.03-17 «Программа конкретных действий, направленных на становление и развитие культуры безопасности в ОП ЗАЭС» (п.1.7.4, 1.7 .6 Додатку В), відповідно до Наказу №1 (п.1 Додатку 4).
При проведенні опитування використовується анкета, сформована відповідно до вимог документу «Методика проведення опитування з культури безпеки у ДП «НАЕК «Енергоатом» МТ-Д.0.06.496-16.
Ефективність проведення опитування забезпечується виконанням наступних вимог:
ZNPP summarized the results of the annual assessment of Safety Culture at the Zaporizhzhya NPP on the basis of staff self-assessment questionnaires about state of Safety Culture. Comparison of the survey results obtained in 2016 and 2014 allow drawing conclusions about consistently high level of Safety Culture at ZNPP in all aspects.
