SSE Chernobyl NPP, has said that the sarcophagus has a very high chance of collapsing. Luckily workers have been building a 32,000-ton shell around the sarcophagus for the past nine years and it ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant's ... For nine years now, workers have been building a 32,000-ton shell around the sarcophagus that's known as the New Safe Confinement structure -- which is ...

At Chernobyl, Building a Shelter for a Shelter The ruined Chernobyl nuclear facility still contains some 200 tons of radioactive fuel. A "sarcophagus" -- a steel and concrete shell built soon ...

The Chernobyl sarcophagus which has long contained the fissured reactor ... but also enable the sarcophagus and the reactor building within to be safely taken apart. This is essential if potential ...

An international team of engineers has nearly completed the first building stage of a protective sarcophagus in Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear meltdown. Fully assembled, the new shelter ...

But 30 years later, the sarcophagus is crumbling, and another disaster at Chernobyl looms. Now, an international team of engineers is racing the clock to assemble one of the most ambitious ...

On April 26, 1986, technicians at Unit 4 in Chernobyl, Ukraine ... preventing any atmospheric contamination should the old sarcophagus collapse. The new building is expected to last anywhere from 100 ...

Workers are taking down Chernobyl's "sarcophagus," once meant to keep ... the sarcophagus to say that it was also poorly built. The building lacks any welded or bolted joints, meaning that an ...

The old plant and sarcophagus are falling apart ... Bob Simon: I don't like a beeper in Chernobyl. I don't like that sound. Building the arch under these conditions is challenging enough.

One woman described how the building in which she worked at Chernobyl grew dark and shook ... project to make the leaky concrete and steel sarcophagus over the ruined reactor environmentally ...

Work began in recent days to remove, bit by bit, the giant chimney protruding from the Chernobyl nuclear power ... problems of working on a radioactive building site. Image caption, The ends ...

They're heading to Chernobyl, in North-Central ... so he needs to know firsthand the condition of the sarcophagus. Inside the damaged reactor building, Simon's team wears masks to protect them ...