Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, the international community has made, Tuesday, April 19, at the head of Ukraine to help finance a long-term answer for the worst civilian nuclear accident in history. The leaders of the G8 and the European Union gathered in Kiev for a donor conference recalling the quarter century of disaster back in the news with the episode of the Japanese central Fukushima.
"The contributions announced this morning bring together the outstanding amount - after recalculation and correction - of 550 million euros," said Francois Fillon at the end of the conference he co-chaired under the French Presidency G8. It had initially announced $ 575 million before revising downward the estimate.
This is a "minimum", he said. "This result illustrates the sense of responsibility of the entire international community," said Mr. Fillon, convinced that "countries that could not announce a figure today will be able to make decisions very soon. " The aim was to bring the 740 million euro shortfall for the work related to the construction of a new blanket insulating the Chernobyl reactor accident, a total budget of 1.5 billion euros.
This project is funded by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). This amount also includes the construction of a repository for spent nuclear fuel and preparatory work. Thirty countries have announced new contributions to the fund, said EBRD President Thomas Mirow, that his bank wants unlock in the coming months between 120 and 180 million euros.
Mr Barroso promised to grant 110 million euros from the European Union. The United States has earmarked $ 123 million (86 million). France and Russia have announced respective contributions of 47 and 45 million euros. The Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, praised the outcome as "unprecedented" by the meeting also state 550 million euros combined 29 million spent by the Ukraine.
"The process of collecting funds was not easy," with "difficulties in economic and financial crisis. Despite this, our partners have shown strong support," he said. "The completion of this project is important for the Ukrainian people but has a global dimension" and the nuclear crisis in Japan "has shown that nuclear safety knew no national boundaries," said Mr Yanukovych.
The reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl exploded April 26, 1986, contaminating much of Europe, particularly Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. It was covered in a rush to a yoke which is now cracked. The official death toll from the explosion of reactor 4 alone is 31 dead, but many people have died from diseases caused by radiation.
The total balance and health consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are still being debated twenty-five years later. It is still forbidden to access a 30 km radius around the site. The holes in the crack-free concrete reactor currently reach 100 m 2, according to the Chernobyl Children International.
A consortium of French companies Bouygues and Vinci in 2007 has won a tender to build a new sarcophagus sealed financed by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The new containment, a large steel arch 108 meters high and weighing 20,000 tons, will be built next door, then slid over the existing sarcophagus.
Work began in late 2010 to build this new blanket which commissioning is scheduled for 2015. The last reactor at Chernobyl was closed in 2000. 
"The contributions announced this morning bring together the outstanding amount - after recalculation and correction - of 550 million euros," said Francois Fillon at the end of the conference he co-chaired under the French Presidency G8. It had initially announced $ 575 million before revising downward the estimate.
This is a "minimum", he said. "This result illustrates the sense of responsibility of the entire international community," said Mr. Fillon, convinced that "countries that could not announce a figure today will be able to make decisions very soon. " The aim was to bring the 740 million euro shortfall for the work related to the construction of a new blanket insulating the Chernobyl reactor accident, a total budget of 1.5 billion euros.
This project is funded by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). This amount also includes the construction of a repository for spent nuclear fuel and preparatory work. Thirty countries have announced new contributions to the fund, said EBRD President Thomas Mirow, that his bank wants unlock in the coming months between 120 and 180 million euros.
Mr Barroso promised to grant 110 million euros from the European Union. The United States has earmarked $ 123 million (86 million). France and Russia have announced respective contributions of 47 and 45 million euros. The Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, praised the outcome as "unprecedented" by the meeting also state 550 million euros combined 29 million spent by the Ukraine.
"The process of collecting funds was not easy," with "difficulties in economic and financial crisis. Despite this, our partners have shown strong support," he said. "The completion of this project is important for the Ukrainian people but has a global dimension" and the nuclear crisis in Japan "has shown that nuclear safety knew no national boundaries," said Mr Yanukovych.
The reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl exploded April 26, 1986, contaminating much of Europe, particularly Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. It was covered in a rush to a yoke which is now cracked. The official death toll from the explosion of reactor 4 alone is 31 dead, but many people have died from diseases caused by radiation.
The total balance and health consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are still being debated twenty-five years later. It is still forbidden to access a 30 km radius around the site. The holes in the crack-free concrete reactor currently reach 100 m 2, according to the Chernobyl Children International.
A consortium of French companies Bouygues and Vinci in 2007 has won a tender to build a new sarcophagus sealed financed by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The new containment, a large steel arch 108 meters high and weighing 20,000 tons, will be built next door, then slid over the existing sarcophagus.
Work began in late 2010 to build this new blanket which commissioning is scheduled for 2015. The last reactor at Chernobyl was closed in 2000.
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