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Chernobyl dome to provide 'hundred years of nuclear safety'

Mái che khổng lồ trên nhà máy nguyên tử Chernobyl
Mái che khổng lồ trên nhà máy nguyên tử Chernobyl Source: AAP

The builders of a massive dome over the stricken Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine say they have closed a 30-year-old nuclear wound.


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The builders of a massive dome over the stricken Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine say they have closed a 30-year-old nuclear wound.


The plant was at the centre of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident in 1986.

Ukraine's government has now promised a newly constructed $2 billion shelter will provide radiation safety for the next century.

 


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