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UNIAN: Nuclear fuel storage to be built near Chornobyl by year-end

By UNIAN.

Published Oct. 9, 2020. Updated Oct. 9 at 7:18 pm

A man holds a Geiger counter near the New Safe Confinement covering the destroyed reactor No. 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear plant on July 9, 2017.

Acting President of Ukraine’s nuclear power giant Energoatom Petro Kotin says the construction of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) in the exclusion zone around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) in Kyiv region will have been completed by the end of 2020.