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Greenpeace expresses concern about a meltdown in Chernobyl

“Even if they have not increased the levels of radiation it is very worrying,” said Churov, who warned of the danger that represents the radioactive dust caused by the collapse.

February 14, 2013 4:26 am

The Delta World

The environmental organization Greenpeace expressed concern on Wednesday by a landslide in the engine room of the closed nuclear power station at Chernobyl, scene in 1986 of the greatest catastrophe in the history of the peaceful use of the power of the atom.

“It is a bad sign: If a few panels fell in the engine room, there is no guarantee that it could not start to collapse the built sarcophagus (over the damaged reactor) in 1986, told the Agency Interfax Vladímir Chuprov, leader of Greenpeace-Russia.

The Ukrainian authorities reported that Eve was the partial fall of a wall and the roof of the engine room, which did not have any impact in radiation levels recorded plant.

According to the inspection of Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine, the roof, a lightweight construction, not part of the “sarcophagus” that contains the damaged reactor.

The engine room is located between the fourth and the third reactor of the plant.

“Even if they have not increased the levels of radiation it is very worrying,” said Churov, who warned of the danger that represents the radioactive dust caused by the collapse.

He added that the useful life of the “sarcophagus”, bucket of concrete covering the fourth reactor of the plant, comes to an end and that, precisely for this reason began the construction of a new, designed for a period of one hundred years.

Russian health Chief, Guennadi Onischenko, said for his part that the fall of concrete panels in the engine room “is not cause for alarm”.

http://www.deltaworld.org/international/Greenpeace-expresses-concern-about-a-meltdown-in-Chernobyl/

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