The accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant has not been a push to finish fixing the disaster at Chernobyl. The prerequisite for building a protective structure and a nuclear waste storage falls short. The amount pledged to complete the two projects was 740 million euros, but 40 countries gathered at an international conference Monday in Kiev have only managed to gather 550 million.
The two projects dating from the nineties and managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The first project consists of an arc-shaped structure covering the deteriorating sarcophagus hastily built protection around the fourth central block (the one who suffered the accident).
The second project is designed to store nuclear waste that were generated by the plant before it was finally closed in 2000. The works in this store was started by the French company Framatome but left unfinished due to technical defects in 2005. The overall cost of both projects is of 1,755 million euros.
The EBRD expects to cover the difference between the amount needed and the funds collected in Kiev with contributions still unannounced and equity of the bank. The donors' conference in Kiev coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident is the third of its kind after the conference in New York (1997) and Berlin (2000).
The outstanding facilities at Chernobyl should have been finished in 2008, but have required "more time and money than originally contemplated," the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix. The period of the works has been extended until 2015. Of the money collected in Kyiv, the EU makes 110 million euros, U.S., 87 million euros, France 47 million euros, Russia, 45 million euros and Germany, 42.4 million euros.
"Spain has not yet taken the decision" to "not join" with a new tax, says U.S. Secretary of State for Energy, Fabrizio Hernández. So far the Spanish government has contributed to the Chernobyl fund with 5.1 million of direct support, in addition to the share in EU contributions. In Kiev there have been announcements of contributions "for all pockets," said Hernandez.
"In short," said the Spanish government will give "an answer to Ukraine if a contribution or not, and if that has in what amounts." The economic crisis has influenced the generosity of donors. Italy, Canada, Mexico and Brazil did not announce any money, but instead, a country so affected by the crisis as Greece has pledged 100,000 euros.
China first became a donor to Chernobyl with 4 million euros, while Japan, important contributor in the past, said it can not make new contributions, having to deal with the aftermath of the accident in Fukushima, the tsunami and earthquakes . Referring to the situation in Fukushima, in the Kiev conference there was a broad consensus on the need to establish common security eStandards tougher to build new plants.
The president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, said the problem of storing nuclear waste calls for global solutions and reiterated its commitment to phase in April 2012 the remains of enriched uranium (which can be used in nuclear weapons) that Ukraine still has a legacy of the USSR. In December 2010, the U.S.
helped to carry part of the uranium to Russia. On behalf of the EU, Jose Manuel Barroso, announced it will soon be adopted new EU rules for the treatment of nuclear waste. For his part, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, said Russian plants are safe. Earlier, the representative of Lithuania had stated that the planned nuclear power plants in the enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus violate international standards.
For its part, the representative of Azerbaijan denounced the nuclear power plant in Armenia and asked the international community to press for closure of these old facilities of Soviet origin who are in a seismic zone and were reopened in view of the serious energy problems that state .
Armenia nuclear power plant, he said, is a serious security threat to Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. In addition, the president of the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, stated that his country had been the scene of nearly 500 nuclear weapons tests in the Semipalatinsk test site.
This equates to 160 Cnernóbil accidents, he said, and regretted that the international community has not been able to fully comprehend the scale of these experiments. 
The two projects dating from the nineties and managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The first project consists of an arc-shaped structure covering the deteriorating sarcophagus hastily built protection around the fourth central block (the one who suffered the accident).
The second project is designed to store nuclear waste that were generated by the plant before it was finally closed in 2000. The works in this store was started by the French company Framatome but left unfinished due to technical defects in 2005. The overall cost of both projects is of 1,755 million euros.
The EBRD expects to cover the difference between the amount needed and the funds collected in Kiev with contributions still unannounced and equity of the bank. The donors' conference in Kiev coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident is the third of its kind after the conference in New York (1997) and Berlin (2000).
The outstanding facilities at Chernobyl should have been finished in 2008, but have required "more time and money than originally contemplated," the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix. The period of the works has been extended until 2015. Of the money collected in Kyiv, the EU makes 110 million euros, U.S., 87 million euros, France 47 million euros, Russia, 45 million euros and Germany, 42.4 million euros.
"Spain has not yet taken the decision" to "not join" with a new tax, says U.S. Secretary of State for Energy, Fabrizio Hernández. So far the Spanish government has contributed to the Chernobyl fund with 5.1 million of direct support, in addition to the share in EU contributions. In Kiev there have been announcements of contributions "for all pockets," said Hernandez.
"In short," said the Spanish government will give "an answer to Ukraine if a contribution or not, and if that has in what amounts." The economic crisis has influenced the generosity of donors. Italy, Canada, Mexico and Brazil did not announce any money, but instead, a country so affected by the crisis as Greece has pledged 100,000 euros.
China first became a donor to Chernobyl with 4 million euros, while Japan, important contributor in the past, said it can not make new contributions, having to deal with the aftermath of the accident in Fukushima, the tsunami and earthquakes . Referring to the situation in Fukushima, in the Kiev conference there was a broad consensus on the need to establish common security eStandards tougher to build new plants.
The president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, said the problem of storing nuclear waste calls for global solutions and reiterated its commitment to phase in April 2012 the remains of enriched uranium (which can be used in nuclear weapons) that Ukraine still has a legacy of the USSR. In December 2010, the U.S.
helped to carry part of the uranium to Russia. On behalf of the EU, Jose Manuel Barroso, announced it will soon be adopted new EU rules for the treatment of nuclear waste. For his part, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, said Russian plants are safe. Earlier, the representative of Lithuania had stated that the planned nuclear power plants in the enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus violate international standards.
For its part, the representative of Azerbaijan denounced the nuclear power plant in Armenia and asked the international community to press for closure of these old facilities of Soviet origin who are in a seismic zone and were reopened in view of the serious energy problems that state .
Armenia nuclear power plant, he said, is a serious security threat to Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. In addition, the president of the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, stated that his country had been the scene of nearly 500 nuclear weapons tests in the Semipalatinsk test site.
This equates to 160 Cnernóbil accidents, he said, and regretted that the international community has not been able to fully comprehend the scale of these experiments.
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