In what could be a $150 million contract, Chornobyl’s Exclusion Zone Agency is launching a tender for construction of a facility to store vitrified high level nuclear waste for 100 years . In the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear disaster, a French consortium, Novarka, built the €1.5 billion New Safe Confinement. An American company, Holtec International, built the first stage of what is ... #Chornobyl #Chornobylexclusionzone #ChornobylZone
So far this year, 32,000 tourists have visited Chornobyl, close to the 36,000 for all of last year, Kyrylo Harnyk, an official with the Exclusion Zone Management agency, told a Chornobyl tourism roundtable yesterday. Two weeks ago, Ukrzaliznytsia sent the first test train down the Vilcha – Yaniv tra... #Chornobyl #Chornobyltourism
Parts of the Chornobyl exclusion zone could become a plantation for growing crops for biogas, Economy Minister Oleksiy Lyubchenko told Ukraine’s international reform conference in Vilinius last week. “Ukraine has the Chornobyl zone, where a huge amount of land is not used,” he said. “The... #Chornobyl #Chornobyl2021 #Chornobylexclusionzone
On the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear fire, President Zelenskiy yesterday inaugurated a €448 million nuclear waste repository. Located near the shuttered nuclear power plant, the unit is “the largest dry spent fuel storage facility in the world” according to the EBRD which coordinated donation from OECD countries. Designed to... #Chornobyl #ebrd #nuclearenergy
With next Monday marking the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl fire, Ukravtodor has repaved the 40 km road between Dyliatky checkpoint, the main entrance to the Exclusion Zone, and Pripyat town. “Our task is to put in order the popular tourist routes in three years and... #Chornobyl #ChornobylUkraine
