Preparations underway for Chernobyl nuclear plant shutdown

Preparations underway for Chernobyl nuclear plant shutdown

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Victor Konstantin Tolstonogov, head of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the worst-ever nuclear power plant accident in 1986, says in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on Nov. 17, that preparations for the complete shutdown of the plant's last reactor on December 15 are underway. 'There is no problem for the time being as we are taking care of it appropriately,' he says in an interview with Kyodo News, referring to the possible collapse of the concrete concealment of the No. 4 reactor, center of the tragic explosion.

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