A binational Belarussian-Ukrainian team is surveying the navigable depths of the Pripyat River with the goal of running tourist boats and cargo barges through the exclusion zone, between Mazyr, Belarus and Kyiv.

A binational Belarussian-Ukrainian team is surveying the navigable depths of the Pripyat River with the goal of running tourist boats and cargo barges through the exclusion zone, between Mazyr, Belarus and Kyiv. The State Exclusion Zone Management Agency is allocating $3 million this year to rebuild two road bridges in the zone. Petruk, the agency head, tells Ukrinform that solar stations will be built on Chernobyl’s already degraded industrial land, not in the ‘ecological biosphere reserve,’ which accounts for 85% of the zone.