On July 2-3, 2019, the International seminar "Ecosystem and radioecological investigations of cooling reservoir of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant" was held, with the support of the IAEA, organized by the Institute of Hydrobiology of the NAS of Ukraine in cooperation with the State Specialized Enterprise “Chornobyl NPP” of SAUEZM of Ukraine.
A team of scientists from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the NAS of Ukraine participated in a unique international ecological event - the fourth joint international survey of the Danube River (Joint Danube Surveys 4, JDS). The second largest aquatic artery in Europe flows in the territories of 10 countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine - and into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.