Workers are constructing a massive sarcophagus-like cover for the destroyed Chernobyl reactor. Valentyn Ogirenko / ReutersThirty years after an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant spewed radiation across Europe and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, workers continue the long process of securing the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Decades after the accident, dangerous radioactive materials remain at the site. Since 2010, workers have been building a massive, husk-like structure that will be moved over reactor 4, the unit that blew up in 1986, at the end of 2017. The shell—which will be 328 …read more
Source: The Atlantic
