Representatives of the Green faction in the European Parliament have criticized an agreement to design and erect a new safety shell over the damaged fourth reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant signed between the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant state company and France`s Novarka, according to Ukrainian Journal.
“These funds could be used more efficiently,” Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle on Tuesday.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on September 17, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant signed two important contracts, one to build a new steel structure to seal off the damaged unit 4 with the Novarka consortium and another one to complete the spent nuclear fuel storage with Holtec International. Currently unit 4 is protected by a shelter built immediately after the accident in 1986 under extremely hazardous conditions and which, despite recent successful stabilisation works, is decaying.
The “New Safe Confinement” will be an arch-shaped structure 105 metres high, 150 metres long and with a span of 260 metres. It will be constructed on the site and later be slid over unit 4.
Construction work is expected to take 48-52 months and the shelter will then create the conditions for the ultimate dismantling of Chernobyl’s unit 4 which still contains 95 percent of its original nuclear inventory.
The European Commission for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, asked Ukraine to give up visa requirements for Romanians and Bulgarians, in order to help the adoption of the special visa regime between the European Union and Kiev, according to Mediafax, quoting the Ukrainian News Agency online.
The commissioner added however that the EU is not conditioning Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation on the elimination of visa …
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News on terrorist act in Beirut on 19 of September of 2007, which caused victims among civil population, in particularly member of Lebanese parliament Antoine Ghanem, was received in Ukraine with deep concern, according to the MFA press-service.
Ukraine is strongly condemning a practice of political killings and terrorist attacks in Lebanon and hopes that Lebanese people will not be provoked and will not allow deepening of internal political …
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A Ukrainian citizen was killed in an automobile accident on the Antalia-Belek road in Turkey in September 7.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian citizen worked as a guide for a tourist agency.
His body is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine in a coffin on September 10.
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