26 years of the Chernobyl accident: Chernobyl sarcophagus built over a billion euros!

April 26 marks 26 years since, when an explosion blew the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and turned the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in different countries. “Today,” learn how life has changed “zones”.

Tomorrow, in a memorable date in the exclusion zone will be installed arch of the new hermetic metal sarcophagus, which will replace a temporary emergency and have a concrete cover over the remains of the exploded reactor of the 4th (he erected an emergency rate immediately after the accident in 1986, he twice less than new, and periodically require repair). Construction of the new “armor” of radiation is estimated to be worth around one billion euros - money it gave Ukraine, many countries (see infographic). Told the head of the State Agency for managing the zone of alienation in the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Kholosha, the first designs are already on site, they were brought from Italy. Learn more about Chernobyl Tour on http://stayinkiev.com/en/Chernobyl-Tour!

Cakes and Push. As has reported to the MOE, the arch will be assembled directly on the site, two hundred meters from the reactor. Then, several designs will connect with each other, make seams tight and eventually pulled down over his whole design unit. Point in the construction of the object they want to place in October 2015. In the MOE said that the arch has been tested on hurricanes, fires, snow load, it will be located on the site, equal to four football fields. “The new shelter is intended also to future could make out the old, - explained to us in emergency situations. - Up to 2022 the old sarcophagus fulfill its functions completely. After the study will be conducted. If you find unstable structures that need to be removed, then the special valves inside the new shelter, they will be dismantled. ” In the MOE said that one of the highlights of the new “shell” will be video cameras, with which you can be on a monitor to monitor the state structures. However, in the work within the new shelter will still have to engage people.

3 FOR THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS OF 3. Over the erection of “iron armor” will work for about 3 thousand workers. In the MOE said that the shortage of construction labor force is not experienced - willing to always have enough. Work in Chernobyl in shifts, two weeks, living in svezheotremontirovannyh floor buildings - a dozen years ago the houses were abandoned, and now adorn the plastic windows with brand new curtains hung on the balconies after washing clothes. Moreover, these workers report that came to work at a dangerous object, because they work in areas too tight. “I had worked as a forester in the Zhytomyr region, himself a native of Ovruch. For his work there got a penny, and two thousand were not, at a salary now does not disperse. That’s godfather and agitated me to come here. Here, a stable salary, every month get about three thousand hryvnia. Radiation? From his superiors, I know that its level in the workplace does not exceed the norm, the very same in these figures does not understand “- ingenuously told us hunky 45 years, however, refused to say what it is doing on the station. Other workers who are working to this day, was told that the radiation does not frighten them. “There is a special teams, which make measurements and determine the place where you can stay and where not. If that is all alert. Here, enjoy a stable salary, but to go to work account for all of the other field, “- said one of the workers operating electrical system at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

In recent years in Ukraine from time to time there are rumors that supposedly are going to allow officials to plant crops and build up the Chernobyl land plants and spas.

Recently said in an Emergency. Although, according to various estimates, completely safe, they will be no earlier than 400 thousand years, when will the period of complete decay of radionuclides such as plutonium, settled in these territories.

“We must be clear about what areas in question - say in the State Agency for Management Zone exclusion. - Some areas have really cleared up and can be used without restrictions. Should the question of their socio-economic development infrastructure. However, we stress that this is not a mandatory evacuation areas for the (Chernobyl, Pripyat, which are located near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. - Ed.), And of such cities as Irpen, White Church of the Kiev region, some areas of the Zhitomir region, which belong to four the second zone of radioactive contamination. “