NPR : At Chernobyl, Building a Shelter for a Shelter



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NPR : At Chernobyl, Building a Shelter for a Shelter- The Chernobyl nuclear facility still contains some 200 tons of radioactive fuel, covered by a structure which is increasingly unstable. Engineers plan to build and then slide an enormous Quonset hut-shaped cover over the breached reactor at an estimated cost of 1 billion dollars. [3:43 streaming audio broadcast]