25 years on: Chernobyl still leaking radiation - needs new shell

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42760861/ns/world_news-europe/


Yanukovich renews calls for funding for new containment shell over reactor


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The $800 million raised at the donors' conference last week will be added to cash already contributed for construction of a new 360-foot high encasement over the reactor and a storage facility for spent fuel.

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Hundreds of thousands were sickened and once-pristine forests and farmland still remain contaminated.

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"Because the world is so fragile and we are all so inter-connected, any attempts to hide the truth — to refrain from talking about something publicly, glossing over a situation, making it more optimistic than it is — these subsequently result in the tragic loss of human lives," he said.
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ain't that the truth

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