The European Commission will provide EUR 70 M to Ukraine for the return of the Chernobyl site to a safe environment.
The EUR 70 M pledge, announced at the EU-Ukraine Summit on April 27, amounts to some EUR 360 M provided already for the completion of a number of projects, including the New Safe Confinement being built to enclose the existing ‘sarcophagus’ and reactor 4 destroyed during the 1986 accident, according to the press office of the European Commission.
The aim of the New Safe Confinement is to protect the environment from radiation releases and provide the infrastructure to support deconstruction of …read more
Source: Novinite
