30 years since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

The largest man-made disaster of the 20th century occurred 30 years ago, on April 26, 1986. As a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have suffered the most.

To eliminate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, huge forces were thrown. In the period from 1986 to 1990, more than 800 thousand people worked in the 30-kilometer zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, many of whom received a lethal dose of radiation.

The Chernobyl disaster became a lesson for mankind and forced, in general, to reconsider the attitude towards safety requirements for nuclear power facilities. Now the attention of ecologists and scientists is focused on the construction of a new shelter, a confinement, which for a hundred years should solve the problem of radiation safety around the destroyed reactor.

The structure in the form of a huge arch, according to plans, should be pushed over the old crumbling reinforced concrete sarcophagus, erected in 1986. Construction of the arch began in the spring of 2012, but the date for its commissioning was postponed at least three times due to insufficient funding.

According to the plans, the process of decommissioning the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should be completed in 2064. Until then, the reactors will be mothballed until the radioactivity decreases.