When it's finished, the curved confinement will be moved gently over rails to cover the sarcophagus and dilapidated ... An archive photo of the fourth unit at Chernobyl from 1986 shows the scale ...

Video: For some it was a disaster zone - for others, Chernobyl was the home they would ... been put into place over what was the concrete 'sarcophagus' installed in 1986 which had deteriorated.

The BBC's Yogita Limaye is among the first journalists to look inside it since the Russians left. On the afternoon of 24 February, Russian forces surrounded Chernobyl with tanks and armoured ...

Then, heavy-duty cranes inside the New Safe Confinement will take apart the sarcophagus. Chernobyl by the numbers The second task is waste management. According to the EBRD, there are more than ...

"The permanent sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has been ... A crane was installed inside the arch of the sarcophagus to dismantle the existing old Shelter Structure and the ...

The EU, which has so far committed the lion's share to Chernobyl-related projects, committed another €110 million for a new sarcophagus ... material still inside. European Commission President ...

Alla Kravchuk, the daughter of a former Chernobyl engineer, returns to her father's workplace as the huge mobile Sarcophagus built to cover the damaged reactor nears completion. Can the site of ...