According to the news this afternoon, the plan is to put it in place this year.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

I'm OK with them taking as much time as they like to engineer the new containment structure properly, particularly given that the original one was never intended to last more than about, oh, ten years. The USSR was really not planning on falling apart in 1991.

The thing that I found most interesting about the Chernobyl story, when I first read anything more detailed than the original news reports on the subject, was how the accident was detected in the West: by someone working at another nuclear power station in Sweden. Arriving for work a morning or two (I forget the exact rate at which the fallout propagated) later, he set off the radiation detectors, which are designed to make sure no one is taking contamination out of the plant, on his way into the plant. A measured and cautious Swedish pants-shitting panic ensued until the people there could make certain that, no, their plant wasn't spewing fissile material onto the surrounding countryside to be tracked in on arriving workers' shoes... but somebody's sure as hell was.

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Anyone else remember seeing a photo in the papers of the aerial view down into the thoroughly-blowed-up reactor building? Something down there was glowing, long after the actual fire had gone out.

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It presumably still is, and will be for quite a long time to come.

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

When the realisation came that, no, it wasn't Forsmark that was leaking, THEN measured and cautious came about. Before that? Not so much.

Took a day, not that that matters, and the VERY first thought was actually 'nuclear bomb', as there were things on the guys shoes that had never been detected on site before.

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