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The Chernobyl nuclear burial ground to accept first shipment of waste in 2021

The draft nuclear waste storage is implemented in the exclusion zone of 2017


Pripyat, 15 Nov – IA Neftegaz.RU. The new warehouse on the territory of the exclusion zone of Chernobyl nuclear power plants in 2021 will be the first spent nuclear fuel.


This was reported by press service of the company Energoatom.



The Ukrainian media specify that the first batch of waste will come to Chernobyl with the Rivne nuclear power plant.


Tentatively it will happen in April.



The draft nuclear waste storage is implemented in the exclusion zone of 2017


The design, manufacture and supply of systems for the storage of highly toxic waste is engaged in a U.S. company Holtec International.



Local environmentalists have repeatedly stated that a nuclear burial ground has a number of problems.

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