INTERNATIONAL - Chernobyl nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986 got a new protective sheath to prevent radioactive contamination.
Radiation leaks can be prevented but the high levels of radioactive waste reduction take several decades, reported Deutsche Welle on Friday (02/12/2016).
The new anti-radiation sheath of steel special construction of the most modern that, according to European engineers who designed and built it, guaranteed, able to prevent radiation leaks into the next century.
Inside mounted faucet-art building to dismantle former atomic reactor that exploded in 1986.
This new protective sheath break the record of the largest protective construction built man, with construction 36.00 0 tonnes of steel, 108 meters high, 257 meters wide and is referred able to withstand an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale and Tornado scale of three.
When an accident at the Ukrainian nuclear reaktir it, to prevent the spread of nuclear radiation contamination, some 30 years ago that the firemen and rescue the so-called "Liquidators" was ordered to make concrete protective sheath called sarcophagus.
Now the emergency sarcophagus that are older than three decades it was leaking and collapsed in various parts. Radiation contamination is also believed to be leaking again.
That's why in 1997 the G-7 decided the construction of a new casing with the most modern techniques.
Over 40 countries fund the construction of a new casing construction of which started in 2010.
the most devastating
Chernobyl is an idiom for the biggest nuclear disaster in human history.
On 26 April 1986 a fire at reactor number four, which led to the explosion of the reactor core and nuclear fuel lumernya.
Atomic radiation contamination spread from Ukraine to Belarus and the European region to another within a radius of over 200,000 square kilometers.
As a result of the Chernobyl explosion and radiation contamination, the area around the reactor area of 6400 square kilometers declared a closed zone.
How many fatalities as a result of the nuclear accident, no records are accurate.
The official report mentions about 50 people died, either directly or as a result of exposure to nuclear radiation.
But the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that over 9,000 people were killed.
800,000 firefighters and disaster response atom dusebut "Liquidator", an estimated 100,000 died as a result of radiation.
While serving in the Chernobyl reactor that exploded, no single officer "Liquidator" by know or understand the grave danger of nuclear radiation.