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Sealing the Radioactive Wreckage of...

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Sealing the Radioactive Wreckage of Chernobyl

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The new sarcophagus of Chernobyl was completed at the end of 2017. Two French companies won the contract financed by the European Bank of Reconstruction to seal the deteriorating mountain of cement that had been poured over the second reactor of the Chernobyl plant in 1989.

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