![]() ![]() Special project by the World Wide Fund for Nature WWF-Ukraine with the participation of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve and the Chernobyl Ark project. ![]() Office of the Agricultural Counsellor in Ukraine ![]() It is a living laboratory that allows us to study natural reproduction in the conditions of inhomogeneous radiation pollution of territories, and also provides answers to the question of how we can restore natural territories that have been destroyed. The lack of pressure on nature has strengthened its ability to purify air and water, stabilize the microclimate and give life to tens of thousands of species of fungi, plants and animals. In fact, it has become a filter barrier between the radiation-contaminated area around the station and the populated areas of Ukraine and other countries. Today, it is nature that protects people from the effects of the disaster. Watch with subtitles Wild cows of Chernobyl. The walls provide them with necessary protection from wolfs and weather conditions. The herd, led by the bull, spends days in the forest and return to an old building of the cattle farm for the nights. After the last inhabitant of the village passed away several years ago, the cows became wild. For many decades the cattle of the local people grazed in semi-wild way in the neighborhood meadows. In the village Lubyanka near Chernobyl there is a unique phenomenon for the exclusion area - the herd of wild cows. Watch video by EBRD The story of Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement This ESTA Innovation (Manufacturer) award recognizes the input of Mammoet, global leader in engineered heavy lifting and transport, in the one of the outstanding projects like New Safe Confinement in Chernobyl. Deep in the radiated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Ukraine stands the abandoned Duga radar, a mysterious piece of Soviet Cold War technology also known as the Russian Woodpecker. For this skidding system the company won the award of the European Association of Abnormal Road Transport and Mobile Cranes (ESTA) in 2014. The Dutch company Mammoet joined the international team with the solution on lifting and skidding the arch of the Confinement from the assembly site to its destination. It is a unique engineering idea and example of international cooperation. The EBRD is the single largest donor to the project. The CSF is funded by 45 donors including The EU, The USA, Canada, The UK, Japan, Germany, Italy, France and Ukraine. The project of total more than 2 bln EUR was financed through the Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF). Reuters reports that a huge recently-completed enclosure called the New Safe Confinement-the world's largest land-based moving structure-will be “pulled slowly over the site later this year to create a steel-clad casement to block radiation and allow the remains of the reactor to be dismantled safely.” Gathered below are recent images of the ongoing cleanup work and the ghost towns being reclaimed by nature within the 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometers) exclusion zone in Ukraine.In 2007-2020 the New Safe Confinement above the destroyed 4 th reactor was built. Authorities evacuated 120,000 people from the area, including 43,000 from the city of Pripyat. More than 50 reactor and emergency workers were killed at the time. Several hundred staff and firefighters then tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world in the worst-ever civil nuclear disaster. On April 26, 1986, technicians conducting a test inadvertently caused reactor number four to explode. This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. ![]()
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