The New Safe Confinement at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant successfully completed its final commissioning test on 25th April 2019.
The successful conclusion of the 72-hour trial operation test, a day before the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 accident, marks the safe physical completion of the new structure placed over the destroyed reactor 4.
The New Safe Confinement will protect the environment from further releases of radioactive materials and enable the long-term safe and secure deconstruction of the old shelter and the destroyed reactor, as well as the removal of the radioactive inventory.
This milestone is the culmination of over a decade‘s work on the New Safe Confinement, implemented through the EBRD’s Chernobyl Shelter Fund. Supported by over 45 donor nations as well as funds from the EBRD in excess of a total cost of €2.1 billion, the New Safe Confinement project at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant represents the largest international collaboration ever in the field of nuclear safety.
Original source: EBRD
Published on 25 April 2019
