In 2006 the State Nuclear Regulation Committee issued 96 licenses and permissions, including one for running a nuclear plant (a reactor of the RNPP), eight for production and storage of ionization sources, 46 for use of these, seven for processing and burying radioactive wastes and six for designing nuclear plants and nuclear deposits. These data were announced while presenting an annual report of the State Nuclear Regulation Committee on Friday by Chairwoman of the State Nuclear Regulation Committee Olena Mykolaychuk.
The document, which was devoted to the nuclear and radiation safety in Ukraine, considered all aspects of nuclear branch. In 2006 the nuclear branch faced 33 violations (ten at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, nine at the Rivne NPP, nine at the Khmelnytsky NPP, five at the South-Ukrainian NPP). Ten were qualified as out of INES scale, 21 as "deflection" and two as "anomaly".
Nuclear reactors #1 and #2 of the RNPP, which project running term expires in 2010 and 2011, respectively, entered the completing exploitation stage.
