Monday, July 6, 2015

EU supports improvement of radioactive waste management in Ukraine

European Commission has successfully implemented a project aimed at improving the infrastructure for radioactive waste management within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.  With the objective to support an improved capacity in analytical capability related to radioactive waste materials, the project provides both mobile and centralised laboratories for the measurement and characterisation of radioactive waste materials.

The Mobile Laboratory will be used by Ukraine’s “Central Radioactive Waste Management Enterprise” mainly for the identification, characterisation and measurement of wastes, stored at temporary sites around the Exclusion Zone.
The project with total cost of more than €6M and took just two and a half years to complete, was implemented under EC contract by Lithuanian company UAB “Lokmis”.
The Laboratories were handed over to the Ukrainian Partners during a ceremony held in Chernobyl City on the 1st
 July 2015. Read more at http://eeas.europa.eu/