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Associated Press: Chornobyl reactor’s radioactive dust shelter opened

By Associated Press.

Published July 10, 2019 at 5:34 pm

A tool for measuring radiation levels, Geiger counter, is held against a backdrop of the new sarcophagus covering the Reactor Four of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant destroyed by an explosion in 1986. The new safe confinement replaced an original crumbling dome at the end of 2018.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

A structure built to confine radioactive dust from the nuclear reactor at the center of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster is up and running.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky formally opened the “new safe confinement” shelter that spans the remains of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant’s Reactor No. 4.