Posted on 07/11/2019 6:02:09 AM PDT by C19fan
A £2billion project to confine the leaking of radioactive debris at the Chernobyl nuclear plant has been unveiled.
The structure – which took nine years to build – was constructed to secure the molten reactor core and 200 tons of radioactive material at the site.
Officials have described the shelter as the largest moveable land-based structure ever built, with a span of 257 metres and a total weight of over 36,000 metric tons.
Reactor Number 4 at the plant in what was then Soviet Ukraine exploded and burned on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation across Europe in the world's worst nuclear accident.
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#10 yep you hear a technician say: “Hold my vodka”
GO to the PBS website. You have to join to watch it or its on Netflix.
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