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Ukraine’s new nuclear waste storage facility

The facility will be launched in early 2013 and will only house Ukrainian nuclear waste, a large part of which is currently stored in “poorly equipped” locations, Chernobyl plant’s spokeswoman Maya Rudenko said.

“It will not be for material from nuclear plants” but waste from medical facilities and industries, …..

Construction of the storage facility is estimated to cost over 11 million euros ($14.6 million) to come from Britain, which will provide eight million British pounds ($12 million) and the European Commission (two million euros, or $2.6 million).

The Chernobyl nuclear plant is located about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Kiev and close to the borders with Russia and Belarus. Its fourth reactor exploded in April 1986 with fallout hitting the three Soviet republics along with a large part of Europe.

The area around the plant is still very contaminated and designated as a depopulated “zone of exclusion” whose population was evacuated and where no economic activity is allowed.

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October 6, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Ukraine, wastes