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New phase in safety work on Chernobyl’s original shelter

Monday, 14 October 2024

 The next phase of the project has begun to study which parts of the
shelter built rapidly around Chernobyl’s unit 4 after the 1986 accident
need immediate dismantling and which bits need stabilisation. The project,
funded through the International Chernobyl Cooperation Account, aims to
determine the scope of early deconstruction work for unstable Shelter
structures and provide an initial cost estimate and enable the beginning of
design work for the next stage, which includes the dismantling of the
unstable Shelter structures.

The original shelter over the destroyed unit 4
at Chernobyl was constructed in a matter of just months, and the
international Shelter Implementation Plan in the 1990s had three phases –
firstly to stabilise it and secondly to build a larger secure construction
to enclose it – the New Safe Confinement which was completed in 2017 to
pave the way for the dismantling and decommissioning stage.

 World Nuclear News 14th Oct 2024 https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/new-phase-in-safety-work-on-chernobyls-original-shelter

October 18, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized