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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine AP 鈥?Workers completed a massive shelter over the Chernobyl nuclear plant s exploded reactor on Tuesday, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world that one expert said had closed a nuclear wound. The half cylinder-shaped shelter was locked in place over the plant s reactor No. 4 after being moved in on hydraulic jacks for two weeks. It marks a significant stanley cup step toward containing the consequences of the world s worst nuclear accident, which occurred 30 years ago in what is now Ukraine.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko described the new shelter as the biggest moving construction that humanity has ever created. W stanley cup orkers will now begin dismantling unstable parts of the original cover, the so-called sarcophagus, which was built over the reactor shortly after the disaster to contain radiation.The April 26, 1986 explosion at the reactor sent a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe and forced the evacuation of about 115,000 people from the plant s vicinity. A 30-kilometer 19-mile area around the plant has remained largely off-limits and the town of Pripyat, where the plant s workers once lived, was turned into a ghostly ruin of deteriorating apartment buildings.The new shelter is 275 meters 843 feet wide and 108 meters 354 feet tall and cos stanley tumbler t about 1.5 billion euros, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. More than 40 governments have contributed to funding its construction, which involved 10,000 wo |
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