Word: chernobyl
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...course while all this is happening, there may still be a continuing nuclear reaction under the concrete sarcophagus that was poured over the exploded reactor at Chernobyl...
...government of Ukraine finally closed the Chernobyl nuclear reactor on Friday. Does this close the book on Soviet-era nuclear energy disasters...
...necessarily. There are conflicting schools of thought on that. Definitely, it was dangerous to maintain Chernobyl. But on the other hand, these things come and go, and you can never be sure they won't return. In Armenia, they had a power station of the same design as Chernobyl. And in the years after the explosion, as the Soviet Union reached its lowest ebb and collapsed, the environmentalist movement managed to get that reactor shut down. It was a particularly dangerous one, because in those glorious Soviet times they managed to build a nuclear power plant directly over a geological...
...Indeed, they're pulling the plug on the reactor just as they're going into a harsh winter. Do they have an alternative energy source to replace the power they're losing from Chernobyl...
...Actually no, their situation is very bad. Even before closing Chernobyl, they had daily outages in the capital, Kiev. In fact, they're so regular that they're actually scheduled, blacking out whole sections of the city for hours at a time so that power can be supplied to other regions. Now, without Chernobyl, they will have to extend those blackouts. Their only alternative is to rely more heavily on heating oil, which comes from Russia. And that could raise political tensions by making them more dependent on Russia. In the long term they're relying on promises from Europe...