Ukraine considers storing foreign nuclear waste at Chernobyl (More good news from the Oranges)

AFP ^ | Thu Dec 8

[jb6]

KIEV (AFP) - Ukraine will consider storing nuclear waste from abroad at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

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"Politically, we have to study this question," Yushchenko was quoted as saying after visiting the plant in the north of the country.

"Undoubtedly, there can be economic feasibility... so we have to think hard before making a political decision," Interfax quoted him as saying.

Chernobyl's number-four reactor, in what was then the Soviet Union and is now Ukraine, exploded on April 26, 1986, sending a radioactive cloud across Europe.

Following the disaster, a concrete sarcophagus was built over the stricken reactor and a new 20,000-tonne steel case to cover the whole plant is planned on being constructed between 2008 and 2009.

The power station was eventually shut down on December 15, 2000.

[jb6]

In 15 years they haven't been able to keep the original materials contained, now they're going to just pile them up till they continue leaking out or go critical from heat build up and create another explosion like in the Urals back in the 60s.

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[spanalot]

Send it to the Kremlin from whence this shoddy plant originated.

[MindBender26]

Was there twice as newsie. Sarcophagus is so bad, birds fly in and out.

100 ton lid from reactor #4 is standing on its edge. One good earthquake, even 60 knot winds will topple it and send huge amounts of radioactive dust into atmosphere.