Want to KIEV Ukraine - a better understanding of the world's worst nuclear disaster? Come and tour the Chernobyl power station.
At the beginning of next year, Ukraine plans to open the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor for visitors who want to learn more about the tragedy, that almost a quarter of a century ago occurred, the emergency situations Ministry said Monday.
The Chernobyl reactor No. 4 exploded on 26 April 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of Northern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people were Ukraine Belarus fallout from areas with radiation and Russia contaminated translocated. Work-related health problems still exist.
The so-called exclusion zone, a highly contaminated area within a 30 mile (48 km) radius of the exploded reactor was evacuated and close off in the aftermath of the explosion. All visits were banned.
Today, some 2,500 employees maintain the remains of the now closed nuclear plant to minimize in shifts to their exposure to radiation. Prohibition are returned to their villages despite a Government hundreds evacuated. A few companies now offer tours to the restricted area, but the Government says that these tours are illegal and their safety is not guaranteed.
Emergency situations Ministry spokesperson Julia Yershova said experts develop itineraries that will be both medically safe and informative for Ukrainians and foreign visitors. You give an exact date when the tours were expected to begin.
"There are things to see if you follow the official route there and stray away from the group" Yershova the associated press said. "Although it is a very sad story."
The United Nations development program chief Helen Clark toured the Chernobyl together with Baloha on Sunday and said, supported the plan as it could help money and tell a lesson on nuclear safety.
"Personally, I think it is an opportunity to tell a story here and of course the process tell a story, a sad story is something positive in economic terms and positively in communicating important messages, is", Clark said, according to your Office.
The Ministry also said Monday it hopes to complete to create a new more secure shell for the exploded reactor by 2015. The new shelter covers the original iron and concrete structure of the reactor, the radiation, crack and threatens, reduce leaking was hastily established.
The new shell is 345 feet (105 M) high, 853 feet (260 M) wide and 490 metres long (150 metres). It weighs 20,000 tonnes and will be pushed through the old shelter with rail tracks. The new structure will be large enough to the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris or the statue of liberty in New York House.
(Die_Gesamtkosten_des_internationalen_Gebern_finanzierte_Projekt_ist_von_505_Millionen_US-Dollar_gestiegen_((EURO)_380_Millionen) to $1.15 billion ((EURO) 870 million) due to the more stringent security requirements according to the Ukrainian officials.
The European Bank for reconstruction and development, who managed the project, said a final estimate of the cost of the project will be released after the French-led consortium Novarka a building plan finalized in the coming months.
By news.yahoo.com
FILE - this may 10, 2007 file photo a general overview of empty houses in the city of Pripyat and the closed Chernobyl nuclear power station in the background. Next year, said Ukraine of the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl visitors will provide more information about the nuclear tragedy which occurred want it 24 years ago, the emergency situations Ministry Monday Dec 13 2010. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky (file)
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