'It was like a science-fiction movie': Chernobyl - site of the world’s worst nuclear accident revisited
A massive £1.2bn civil engineering operation is hoping to make Ukrainian site safe, but it is running a decade behind schedule and there are doubts whether it will ever be finished
Ever since he risked his life to fight the nuclear fires at
Chernobyl, Anatoli Gubariev has dreaded a new catastrophe in the ruins
of reactor No 4.
Hundreds of tons of radioactive dust and fuel are still
buried there, covered with an edifice of concrete slabs and metal plates
called the object shelter. It was hurriedly erected after the accident,
and parts of the old reactor covering are now starting to collapse.
The
worst recent incident was a radiation alert when the roof of the
turbine hall fell in, forcing terrified workers to put on respirators
and flee the site – and giving Ukrainians a nasty reminder that their
Chernobyl problem has not gone away.
Data: 07.11.2013
Fonte: www.independent.co.uk
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