Burying The Beast: Giant Shield Built Over Chernobyl Reactor

Le Figaro/Worldcrunch:

A quarter-century after the deadly 1986 disaster, Chernobyl's infamous fourth reactor continues to emit harmful radiation. Two French firms are currently building a massive shield to seal the facility off. Life in the atomic work zone is hardly business as usual.

Read the whole story: Le Figaro/Worldcrunch

Comments

[Jan Smith Photographer]

02:28 AM on 09/22/2011

Late last year, while I was working in Chernobyl, the new plant for waste disposal, built by Novarka was rumored to have a serious design flaw. In effect it was too small to store the former rods of Reactor #4 in their entirety. The flaw is estimated to have cost $75 million, and the head supervising engineer, is said to have committed suicide. I'm not sure how much of this is an urban myth among the Chernobyl Plant workers, but it is often commented. Furthermore, I've not seen any progress on the Novarka buildings in the last eight months.
To see some of the photographic work I've been working on in Chernobyl:
http://smithjan.com/blog/2011/04/27/pripyat-atoms-wake/

[dayzee10]

11:46 AM on 08/12/2011

All is well!!! This will never happen in the United States because we are protected by our trustworthy and competent nuclear energy corporations that love us all.

[crydespite]

08:37 AM on 08/12/2011

jolly good. now what about under it?

[gmazs4]

11:58 AM on 08/11/2011

What better way for terrorist to cripple America than to bomb neuclear power plants. If they hit several strategitc plants at once they could make areas uninhabitable us for years....