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A new shelter is being built to protect Chernobyl in Ukraine. The construction costs over 1bn ($1.46bn/1.38bn euros) and is intended to stop radioactive material leaking, and to allow the old reactor to be dismantled safely.
A catastrophic explosion in April 1986 caused 31 deaths, and the radioactive material released spread across Europe.
The BBC’s Science Editor David Shukman went to see the shield being built.
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chest xray !! then why not build the same wall all around the reactor
Is The Shield Made Of Lead?
According to wikipedia.
Radioactive dust in the shelter is monitored by hundreds of sensors.[13] Workers in the 'local zone' carry two dosimeters, one showing real-time exposure and the second recording information for the worker's dose log.[23]
Workers have a daily and annual radiation exposure limit. Their dosimeter beeps if the limit is reached and the worker's site access is canceled.[23] The annual limit (20 millisieverts) may be reached by spending 12 minutes above the roof of the 1986 sarcophagus, or a few hours around its chimney.[12]
They are dismantling the sarcophagus because it’s going to collapse
Maybe 4 million chest x rays
50,000 tonnes of metal above your head. Good job you are wearing a hard hat
2:07 You mean 300 chest x rays right?
How u not ded
"Now to come this close, I've had to put on safety equipment."
Because now if it falls on you the helmet will protect you xD
Safety equipment? You know your going to glow in the dark right?
there was no way he actually went that close surely
USSR: We need cheap energy.
USSR: We need you to go and sacrifice your life to clean up that radioactive waste tovarich.
"Equivalent dose of a chest x-ray" Boy, did we hear that once before..
Hey
50k people lived now only Jeremy Clarkson.
Not great not terrible