Fourth power unit at Chornobyl NPP covered with new safety shield

29.11.2016 16:21 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) — As of today, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has attended the ceremony of completing the coverage of the destroyed fourth power unit of Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) with a new safety shield, called the New Safety Confinement (NSC), Interfax reports. «This is the world’s largest movable structure ever built by the mankind. The coalition consisting of 28 countries in support of Ukraine has collected more than EUR1.417 milliard to build it together with Ukraine,» Poroshenko said at the ceremony of completing the skidding of the Chornobyl New Safe Confinement Sarcophagus. As to him, 10,000 workers from many countries participated in building the NSC, 40 states are involved in the project. «Everyone knows how difficult times are now in Ukraine. No one could imagine that the Chornobyl tragedy will not be the worst one Ukraine had to pass through. And that Ukraine is building the arch and the safe confinement in conditions of war, when it opposes Russian aggression,» Poroshenko said. As to the report, the President thanked the international community for its support and solidarity with Ukraine. Reportedly, EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti being present at the ceremony, in turn, said the NSC in a year will be transferred to the balance sheet of Ukrainian authorities.

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