New Protective Shield for the Catastrophic Reactor in Chernobyl

Abstract

On Tuesday, the 29^th November 2016 the new safety cover for the catastrophic reactor in Chernobyl was to be set up in position and location. The biggest construction work of the world is more than 105 metre high, 162 metre long, 257 metre wide and weighs about 36000 tons. It should in the meantime replace the knocked down sarcophagus which was constructed on the reactor in 1986. Immediately after the nuclear accident in 1986 the sarcophagus, a huge construction made of 30000 ton concrete and 7000 ton steel had been porous due to active radiation and disintegrating heat as also penetrating humidity thereby releasing partly radioactive dust.