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Who should pay for the new sarcophagus at Chernobyl?

The Chernobyl sarcophagus covering the destroyed reactor is crumbling. Although a European consortium has agreed to bury the site in a new "safe metal" , it is still unclear exactly where provverranno funding. Moscow, for its part, seems reluctant to pay. When the No. 4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in 1986, Ukraine was the Soviet Union politically. It is now an independent country and its links with Mosca sono cambiati ed a volte sono stati tesi. Il reattore di Chernobyl, che è stato frettolosamente chiuso in una struttura in calcestruzzo, appena dopo il disastro, rimane un punto di contesa.
Chernobyl è passata alla storia come il peggior incidente nucleare del mondo, e le sue rovine hanno ora bisogno di una nuova struttura protettiva, in quanto quella attuale rilascia perdite radioattive. Il progetto dovrebbe costare circa 2 milardi di Euro. Al momento devono ancora essere raccolti 740 milioni di Euro per il suo completamento. Alla Russia piace essere definita come il vero successore del vasto impero sovietico, ma finora la sua egemonia ha avuto poca influenza negli affari interni ucraini.
ll nuovo sarcofago sarà simile ad un hangar lungo 150 meters, which will move on rails over the ruins of the reactor and make it safe for a century. The coverage would then make it possible for workers to dismantle the reactor within that time frame.
"Chernobyl will not exist" , said as Yves-Thibault de Silguy, president of the French company Vinci, copartecipante Novarka consortium, which won the contract to build a new sarcophagus.

Losses from the old security

The existing sarcophagus, a seal of Russian-made, started to leak in 1990 and now allows rainwater to penetrate inside. Novarka wants to build a new waterproof protection to prevent water from reaching the reactor core.
When it ends, perhaps by 2015, once expected to become the largest mobile structure in the world. Its costs, however, increase since 2007, the year of signing the contract. Originally, the initial budget was 380 million euro, but was inflated by the introduction of new safety requirements more stringent.
Funding for the project is a joint plan of the EU and G8 countries. The second group belongs to Russia, but so far has pledged 1% of the final cost - 23 million €. About half of the promised funding comes from European governments or Brussels.
Moscow proved to be more generous in other areas of the nuclear industry. In 2010 alone, spent 1 billion and 700 million euro for the construction of new nuclear power stations. About 12 reactors are planned to be built in Russia by 2020.
The company Rosatom State currently has plans to build new nuclear cental in neighboring countries, India and China.
The Kremlin, meanwhile, pay to former liquidators of Chernobyl , about € 50 each per month.

Source: Spiegel Online, December 24, 2010; Translation: Project Humus