EBRD is ready to allocate 350 million euros for construction of a new secure confinement at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, said the Director of the division of nuclear security Bank Vince Novak during the meeting in Kiev with Ukrainian Minister of ecology and natural resources Andrew Manicom.

" The EBRD's Board of Directors currently ready to invest 120 million euros to Finance the construction of a new confinement and another 230 million Euro at the end of November (After discussion at its meeting). So, the Bank will become a major donor of financial assistance, " informs about the statement of the messenger EBRD press service of the Ministry of environment of Ukraine.

According to Novak, the question of allocation of 300 million euros decides the next meeting of the Assembly of donors 12 December in London.

Novak in October stated that the completion of the construction of a new protective shelter over the emergency the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant delayed until November 2017 because of the " serious shortage of public money." According to Novak, for the timely implementation of the project is not enough to about 615 million euros.

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.

The Chernobyl disaster liquidators recognized 600 thousand people, although the elimination of the consequences of the Fukushima disaster lasts until now. 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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