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New Chernobyl cover – a race against time

Engineers race to contain Chernobyl radiation Roger Boyes Moscow
The Times,  , November 28 2012
Racing against time, Ukrainian engineers have started erecting a huge
igloo-like structure to stop radioactive contamination leaking in the
future from the abandoned Chernobyl power station.
At present the crippled plant — which, after the 1986 meltdown, sent a
plume of radioactive fallout billowing across Europe — is covered by a
concrete sarcophagus.
But experts believe that it will contain radioactivity for only 30
years, or until 2016…subscribers only,
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3614151.ece

December 1, 2012 - Posted by | Ukraine

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