The opening ceremony took place on September 17 in the central building of the United Nations Office in Vienna with the participation of the Acting Director General of the IAEA Ms Mary Alice Hayward, members of the Ukrainian Club, foreign high officials, international experts and participants of the IAEA General Conference.

The Ukrainian exhibition booth highlighted the process of transformation of the exclusion zone from the moment of the Chornobyl disaster to the present day as well as demonstrated the results achieved in decommissioning of the Chornobyl NPP and transformation of the Shelter object into an ecologically safe system.

The exhibition was organized with the use of high technologies providing a possibility to take part in a virtual tour of the most interesting places of the Exclusion Zone, including the ChNPP industrial site, the city of Prypiat and other locations.

The exhibition “Chornobyl: the territory of change” was highly appreciated by the international community and became the first event of such kind to be held in United Nations Office in Vienna.