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Added on the 13/01/2016 15:44:08 - Copyright : Viral Video Online
Drone footage shows the construction of the a new structure that will house the present shelter around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the 1986 disaster.
Workers from Bouygues Construction and other companies began to move the New Safe Confinement, or NSC, into position to cover the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in order to protect it from leaking radioactive material. The NSC project will replace the original Soviet shell installed after the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986. The NSC is expected to safely contain Chernobyl's radioactive emissions for the next 100 years.
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