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Repair of Leaking Chernobyl Sarcophagus Begins
Created: 18.02.2005 17:09 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:09 MSK
MosNews
Work has begun to repair the sarcophagus that was hastily built in 1986 to contain the radioactive debris of Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor, after experts warned it was so old it could collapse at any minute.
Workers will only be able to spend a few minutes at a time at the site, which is still spewing radiation, so they will have to plan out each step of the reconstruction in detail, the Vesti news program reported.
Plans to repair the shelter were underway for several years, but it was only recently, with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko elected in December, that the funding was found.
With the inauguration last month of President Yushchenko, a pro-Western former opposition leader, new authorities have taken power in Ukraine who enjoy enormous American and European goodwill. As a result, financial backing for the project came from abroad.
Repair plans include adding a second shelter around the old one. “Shelter 2” is a huge 19,800-ton steel arch designed to be assembled nearby, then slid into place on rails to minimize workers’ radiation exposure. The sarcophagus is designed to last at least 100 years, providing improved conditions for further stabilization work and eventual cleanup of radioactive debris isolated inside.
The director of the Chernobyl electric station downplayed concerns of an accident stemming from replacing the sarcophagus. “Even if there is an accident, the contamination radius should not exceed 30 kilometers,” he was quoted as saying.
Today, radiation levels in the exclusion zone -- a radius of nearly 20 miles from the plant -- vary wildly, depending on where radioactive debris fell in 1986. Some places register only natural background radiation, but driving in a car with a dosimeter, one passes through places where the reading zooms up to 100 times normal levels.
Created: 21.02.2005 12:07 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:07 MSK
MosNews
10 of the 220 Chernobyl veterans who have been on hunger strike in Tula and 12 districts of the Tula region since Friday stopped their protest Monday at the request of doctors.
All of them have been hospitalized, said Vladimir Naumov, the chairman of the regional branch of Russia’s Union of Chernobyl Veterans, who is also taking part in the strike. The rest are going to hold on until their demands are met, Naumov said. Almost all the protesters are invalids.
The former Chernobyl relief workers insist that the same amount of free medicines should be provided to them as before the adoption of the cash-for-benefits law; that they be provided free transportation to health resorts and back; that the compensation for damage to their health over the last two months, as well as 27 million rubles (nearly $1 million) they won in courts for the violations of their rights, be paid to them.
The first tranche of 25 million rubles in compensation was transferred to Tula from the federal budget on Friday night and is being paid to the former relief workers, the Tula region’s governor Vasiliy Starodubtsev said. Another 39 million rubles is expected in one or two days, he added.
About 2,500 Chernobyl veterans reside in the Tula region, most of whom are classed as invalids.
The Chernobyl plant was the scene of the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident in April 1986 -- when its number four reactor exploded, sending a radioactive cloud across much of Europe. The exact number of dead has never been given, but it is estimated that five million people were exposed to radiation in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
About 30 people were killed immediately and thousands were evacuated from the region.
Created: 11.03.2005 13:32 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:48 MSK
MosNews
Russia, which is the legal successor of the Soviet Union, should not have to compensate for the damage inflicted by the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted a top nuclear official as saying on Friday.
Sergei Antipov, deputy head of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, was speaking at the Friday session of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament devoted to ratifying the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. The official said that Russia had signed the Convention in 1996, though the Chernobyl accident had taken place 10 years earlier.
The Convention, ratified by the Federation Council, which was signed by Russia in Vienna in May 1996, is one of the basic international legal documents regulating the liability regime and the procedure for paying compensation for the damage done by incidents at civilian nuclear facilities. 26 countries have signed the Convention.
Mikhail Margelov, head of the Federation Council committee for international affairs, said that the main idea of the document consisted in “providing protection to citizens of a country against the damage done by a nuclear incident in another country”. Russian legislation does not ensure such protection now.
According to Margelov, the Convention stipulates the payment of compensation for nuclear damage if a court satisfies the demand of the person who sustained the damages. It gives an opportunity to the state to restrict the liability of the operator of the nuclear installation and sets a low limit of liability.
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