They began yesterday the works of the new concrete and steel sarcophagus displacement - a wide frame 275 and 108 meters high - intended to cover the remains of the reactor affected by the explosion of 1986 (watch the video in timelapse).
A system of jacks (ie "jack") hydraulic take 5 days to place the mammoth "shield" cost 1.5 billion Euros and funded by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). Once assured
Below we tell you about the visit we made some time ago to the sarcophagus, view photos of its construction and watch the video that explains how it works. In addition, in the first video, the sole and exclusive images (because it is forbidden to fly over Chernobyl) the sarcophagus and the main taken from a drone.
THE FOCUS OF JOURNALISTS (December 2014)
It is the time of superlatives: the whole is more than great, everything is bigger, as the Sarcophagus, the largest movable structure ever built by man. It is also the century of the "firsts" that celebrate the ingenuity and technology: there are Mars and Curiosity, and Rosetta's Comet, the Lily and the Concordia, the LHC and the God Particle.
Today is the turn of Chernobyl and the gigantic work of engineering to apply a second, pitiful concrete deck - the new sarcophagus, in fact - the worst nuclear accident in history, caused by errors and superficiality: the explosion of reactor number 4 nuclear power plant near the border between Ukraine and Russia - all over the Soviet Union at the time. It was April 26, 1986.
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