By Lenka Kollar
This article posted on The Engineer provides some interesting updates for the new safe confinement at Chernobyl. The video below provides a detailed graphic and explanation of the construction of the confinement, which is occurring 600m away from the actual damaged reactor. The lower radiation levels in this area allow workers to work up to 40 ours a week. The head engineer describes the project as the most "technically rewarding of his life."
This article posted on The Engineer provides some interesting updates for the new safe confinement at Chernobyl. The video below provides a detailed graphic and explanation of the construction of the confinement, which is occurring 600m away from the actual damaged reactor. The lower radiation levels in this area allow workers to work up to 40 ours a week. The head engineer describes the project as the most "technically rewarding of his life."
When the shelter is finished in 2015, it will briefly become one of the largest moving structures on land as engineers carefully slide it along tracks to its final resting place over the damaged reactor. Read more here.
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