Chernobyl to be covered in steel
 

*Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6999140.stm)*
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The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl.

Ukraine has hired a French firm to build the structure to replace the crumbling concrete casing put over the reactor after the 1986 accident.

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