Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine, are close to finishing a new state-of-the-art protective shelter over the remains of reactor no. 4, the site of ... there to build the roof of the New Safe ...

4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine ... Getty Images The view of the damaged building from the roof of reactor No. 3 "I saw the damage at reactor No. 4.

TASS/. The European Union (EU) has officially passed the keys to the New Safe Confinement (sarcophagus), constructed atop the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor number four destroyed in ...

CHERNOBYL has transformed ... hours to test the turbine but the reactor overheated and generated a blast - the equivalent of 500 nuclear bombs. The reactor's roof was blown off and a plume of ...

The accident at Chernobyl Unit 4; 2. The radionuclide release from the accident; 3. The response at the site; 4. Radiation protection aspects of the accident; 5. Safety issues to be pursued; 6.

Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted down during the notorious 1986 accident in Chernobyl ... roof, which means that the reactor ...