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Chernobyl shelter repairs: 'Difficult choices' lie ahead
The arch-shaped New Safe Confinement structure built over the remains of Chernobyl's destroyed unit 4 suffered such extensive damage in a drone strike in February that it may not be possible to restore it to its full original design purposes and life-span of 100 years, a side event at the...
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Chernobyl unit 4 was destroyed in the April 1986 accident (you can read more about it in the World Nuclear Association's Chernobyl Accident information paper) with a shelter constructed in a matter of months to encase the damaged unit, which allowed the other units at the plant to continue operating. It still contains the molten core of the reactor and an estimated 200 tonnes of highly radioactive material.
However it was not designed for the very long-term, and so the New Safe Confinement - the largest moveable land-based structure ever built - was constructed to cover a much larger area including the original shelter.
The NSC was designed to allow for the eventual dismantling of the ageing makeshift shelter from 1986 and the management and containment of radioactive waste.
Let's see, they need a New New Safe Confinement structure so they can repair the New Safe Confinement structure to take down the old confinement structure which they might leave in place anyway.
Blah, I figure two infantry divisions (whichever are the most expendable), 5,000 tons lead plate, all the liquid nitrogen in Ukraine, and 400 nude coal miners. That ought to do it.
