The Board of Directors of the European Bank for restoration and development (EBRD) has allocated EUR 350 million as additional funding for the construction of a new protective shell at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, said on Tuesday on the Internet representation of the institution.
Just to complete the work required of 615 million euros. Besides the already selected EBRD amount assumes that 165 million for this purpose will provide the G7 and the European Commission. In addition, the " Big seven " next spring will organize a donors ' conference to collect the remaining 100 million.. In the message EBRD reported that the Bank, if necessary, will cover the necessary difference.
first, due to the lack of funds to complete the construction of a new protective shelter over the emergency the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was delayed until November 2017.
in result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 the total area of radioactive contamination in Ukraine amounted to 50 thousand square kilometers in 12 areas from radioactive contamination has damaged 19 Russian regions and part of the territory of Belarus. During the first three months After the disaster died 31 people. Radiation sickness struck 134, while in the secret reports of the story is at least about 300. Victims of the Chernobyl disaster in 25 years, according to various sources, from 25 thousand to 100 thousand people.
After PE over the emergency unit of the station was built sarcophagus " Shelter ", which in the last few years is gradually destroyed. At the end of 2007, the cartel Novarka, a French-led companies began to create a new sarcophagus, the construction of which was due to be completed in 2015.
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