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Reuters: Giant arch slides over Chornobyl site to block radiation for a century

In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chornobyl nuclear …
Reuters

Agence France-Presse: Giant new dome set to keep Chernobyl safe for generations

CHERNOBYL – The world’s largest metal moveable structure will be unveiled Tuesday over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s doomed fourth reactor in …
Agence France-Presse

Poroshenko: Ukraine will always remember Castro’s support in treating Chornobyl children

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has expressed condolences to the people of Cuba over the death of Fidel Castro. “Fidel Castro has stepped into …
Interfax-Ukraine

Financial Times: Steel shield to be placed over Chornobyl

A steel shield said to be the largest moveable structure ever built will in the coming days be fully placed over the remains of the devastated reactor …
Financial Times

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Inside Chernobyl’s radioactive ruins

Workers in Ukraine will soon begin the task of moving a 31,000-ton steel cover over the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Read more …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

The Telegraph: Chernobyl, an abandoned city: in pictures

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The Telegraph

Chornobyl Corruption: Exclusion Zone Chief Sacked Amid Graft Accusations

There’s also omnipresent corruption. One sign of its presence is that the Cabinet on Sept. 23 fired Yury Antipov, the head of the State Agency for …
Oleg Sukhov

Cabinet dismisses head of Chornobyl exclusion zone

The decision was taken at a visiting government meeting in Poltava on Wednesday after Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk had voiced the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Daily Mail: Tour in photos of the haunted remains of the Chornobyl disaster site

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Daily Mail

Forest floor smoldering in Chornobyl Puscha – State Emergency Service of Ukraine

“No open flame was observed as of 7 a.m. on August 19; the watering and monitoring of smoldering forest floor spots went on,” the report said. The …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yatsenyuk orders tightened control over access to Chornobyl zone, will dispatch National Guard

“I am asking the interior minister to send there (to the exclusion zone) additional units of the National Guard and the Interior Ministry. To send the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian firemen stop crown fire in Chornobyl area

“As of 11 a.m. on August 11 the fire between the former villages of Kovshylivka and Buda-Varovychi was being extinguished. The overall area of the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yatsenyuk asks parliament to allocate Hr 135 million for Chornobyl nuclear power plant

“The parliament should endorse a law to provide additional funding of Hr 135 million to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant,” the premier said at a …
Interfax-Ukraine

Forest fires in Chornobyl preserve area under control – Emergency Service

“The fires are being fought round the clock, but this is complicated by the fact that the swampy terrain makes it impossible for special vehicles to …
Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian photographer raises €11,515 for Chornobyl photography project

The closest city to the power plant, Prypyat’s abandoned state serves as a compelling memorial to the biggest nuclear disaster in history. When she …
Sandra MacKenzie

Ukrainian photographer Alina Rudya closes in on Kickstarter goal of 10,000 euros for Prypyat project

Read Alina Rudya’s April 22, 2011 story “Prypyat Memories” in the Kyiv Post Rudya and her family lived in Prypyat at the time, which happened when she …
Sandra MacKenzie

Poroshenko signs law exempting international technical aid for Chornobyl from tax

“Poroshenko signed law No. 364-VIII on amending the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding the specifics of international technical aid to the Chornobyl power …
Interfax-Ukraine

Some Hr 137 million for Chornobyl zone ‘lost’ in state treasury accounts in 2014

“Certain money was lost, and we’re trying to return it. This is not due to the fault of the zone’s administration. Unclear frauds in the treasury at …
Interfax-Ukraine
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