A new tomb for the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl

PRIPYAT, UKRAINE — When Ilya Suslov learned about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, he was working as a construction manager in a secret town in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan. He immediately volunteered to be a “liquidator,” one of the hundreds of thousands of mostly conscripted Soviet soldiers and civilians tasked with clearing the site.

Suslov's assignment was to help design the giant 'sarcophagus,' a concrete and steel tomb built over eight months to hold the smoldering remains of the nuclear power plant's Unit 4. Thirty-one years later, this sarcophagus was replaced by another, this time thought to last at least a century. Designed and built by the French construction giants Bouygues and Vinci, the ark was inaugurated on November 29, 2016. Reactor 4 destroyed in the night of April 25 to 26, 1986 can finally be dismantled.

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Let's go back to 1986, when Suslov visited the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. He was then simply told, “Okay, get ready. On site, he was then provided with light work clothes, as well as a surgical cap and mask. No protection for radioactive waves. As he leaned over the corner of the bunker where they were coordinating the workers responsible for pouring the concrete and welding the steel of the famous "shelter", as they called it, his boss pulled him to the inside shouting, “Hey! What are you doing ? Are you looking to get irradiated? »