Enormous Chernobyl Confinement Shelter to be Completed in 2015
A consortium that includes scientists and engineers from Battelle, Bechtel International Systems and other companies have begun construction of a moveable building that weighs 20,000 tons and will eventually cover the remains of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4.On the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster last month, Ukraine officially launched construction of the project of building the new radiation shell - called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) - an arch-shaped steel structure that is being built distant from the current Object Shelter to avoid radiation exposure of construction workers. Once construction of the arch is complete, the team will slide the NSC - which is 250 meters wide, 150 meters long, 100 meters tall and built from one-meter diameter tubular steel - over the older Object Shelter, which is getting old and degrading.
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