OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2013. The Energoatom office was the venue of a meeting of representatives of the company with a delegation of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Japanese organizations of foreign trade and power energy companies of Japan. In the course of meeting, specialists of the Energoatom company told to their Japanese colleagues about the measures conducted on Ukrainian nuclear power stations targeting raising safety of their exploitation.

According to director for international cooperation of the Energoatom company Mykola Kukharchuk, meetings with Japanese delegations have become traditional for Energoatom already. “27 years ago the Chornobyl accident changed attitude to power energy, changed approaches to securing safety on nuclear power stations. The accident on Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, which occurred 2 years ago, showed to the whole nuclear community that it is not time to relax, that the process of increasing safety of exploitation of NPP power units must be intensified,” Mykola Kukharchuk said.

As he explained, Ukrainian nuclear engineers, as all their foreign colleagues, analyzed lessons of the Fukushima NPS accident, made conclusions, which would enable to ensure production of safe and clean nuclear power energy. “Energoatom is always open for communication with colleagues from Japan and other countries in the issues of safety of exploitation of NPP,” M.Kukharchuk added.

In his turn, the head of Japanese delegation, Special Advisor of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan Yuki Sadamitsu stressed that after visiting of 30-kilometer alienation zone of the Chornobyl NPP Japanese specialists had got convinced what huge activity in minimizing of consequences of the Chornobyl accident had been made in Ukraine. “The Fukushima accident has forced us to reconsider and strengthen requirements to the safety on NPP. For us the Ukrainian experience is very important in the issues of raising safety on nuclear power objects,” Yuki Sadamitsu said.

In the course of meeting representatives of Energoatom company familiarized Japanese quests with realization of a complex (combined) program for increasing of safety of power units of NPP of Ukraine.

In the end of the event representatives of the Japanese delegation expressed their concern in further exchange with experience and thanked to Ukrainian colleagues for the provided information.