The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine this year decided to send 709, 688 million (25, 4 million USD at current official rate) on developments in the decommissioning of Chernobyl NPP and transformation of the Shelter object into an ecologically safe system, reported in a statement released on the last working day of the week the Cabinet decision.

According to the decision, to maintain in safe condition of the first and third reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the existing storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will focus 337, 2 million ($12 million), for decommissioning and partial dismantling of individual systems and components units - 70, 6 million (2, 5 million).

on the conduct of organizational and technical measures for the management, operation, maintenance, repair systems, providing the support of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ensuring the monitoring of nuclear and radiation safety, the government decided to send 230, 9 million (8, $ 3 million).

To create on the industrial site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant infrastructure For spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste management there are 10, 2 million (366 thousand dollars). To release units from nuclear fuel - 60, 7 million (2, 17 million dollars).

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 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. The current Ukrainian government promised to build the sarcophagus over the destroyed reactor in a difficult state conditions.

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