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The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter; Ukrainian: Новий безпечний конфайнмент, romanized: Novyy bezpechnyy konfaynment) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is managed by an agency of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, while the power plant and its sarcophagus and the New Safe Confinement are administered separately. The current area of approximately 2,600 km 2 (1,000 sq mi) [ 8 ] in Ukraine is where radioactive contamination is the highest, and public access and ...
On 26 April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) exploded. [1] With tens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
Power to the Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine was unexpectedly severed, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. But the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency said it poses “no ...
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...
Chernobyl is the site of the world's worst nuclear accident - a catastrophic explosion that sent a plume of radioactive material into the air in 1986, triggering a public health emergency across ...
The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, rolled into place in November 2016, allows for the dismantling of the sarcophagus and for radioactive material to be removed. [13] [14] The containment was expected to cover the existing sarcophagus in 2015. However, delays and a €100 million funding gap caused a yearlong delay, before being moved into ...
A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.. The strike hit the concrete shelter that ...