OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2013. Washington hosted a meeting of the head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection of Ukraine Olena Mykolaychuk and head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the USA Allison Macfarlane.

Chiefs of nuclear regulatory bodies of Ukraine and the USA signed a Memorandum of the meeting between the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection of Ukraine and Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the USA for 2013 – 2015.

The document contains main results of cooperation in 2010-2012 and defines priorities and lines of bilateral cooperation for the next two-year period. Among the principal planned tasks is support of development and technical maintenance of regional inspections for nuclear and radiation safety of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection of Ukraine, modernization of informational system and strengthening of communication opportunities. The Memo envisages rendering support in the development of national normative documents of Ukraine in the issues of nuclear safety, handling with radioactive wastes, removing nuclear objects from exploitation etc. 

During the meeting the parties discussed actual issues of bipartite and multisided cooperation with regards to nuclear and radiation safety, notably:
-       development of nuclear industry in Ukraine and the USA;
-       implementation of the agreements of President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the President of USA Barack Obama reached during Washington Nuclear Security Summit in 2010;
-       institutional development of nuclear regulatory bodies in Ukraine and the US;
-       the systems of knowledge management and proper cadre maintenance including preparation of young specialists in the nuclear branch;
-       the additional measures directed to raising of level of nuclear safety in Ukraine, European Union and USA in the view of an accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant;
-       situation in the countries concerning highly radioactive waste burial etc.