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A giant arch to seal Chernobyl's sarcophagus
2013-11-27 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Work began in recent days to remove, bit by bit, the giant chimney protruding from the Chernobyl nuclear power station. It's one small part of a mammoth engineering project, now nearing completion, designed to slash the risk of another major release of radioactivity. Massive and glittering in the weak winter sunshine, a half-built arch looms over Chernobyl's decaying industrial landscape of cooling towers and power lines. One of the biggest engineering projects in history, it has been likened...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical