new threat from chernobyl: concrete wall about to fall apart, new nuclear cloud possible in ukrane

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Kiev - Shocking news from Ukraine: Ex-director of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, warns of a new nuclear accident. The concrete shell around the reactor 4 exploded in 1986 is crumbling!

The condition is extremely critical, "said Mikhail Umanez (73) at a Greenpeace conference in Kiev:" The risk that the metal and concrete structure collapses, increases with each day because the radioactivity of the decomposed materials. "

According to the environmental organization Greenpeace are below the concrete sarcophagus that was supposed to hold until 2016, some 190 tons of radioactive material. Should break the shell, could at least five tons of deadly radioactive dust released

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This huge gaping hole in 1986 after the explosion at Reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Photo: dpa"It threatens a new nuclear cloud, which also can move back to Western Europe," warns Umanez.

A new "super-sarcophagus" is to make sure the final reactor. But it lacks the money to the Ukraine. The country will therefore appeal this month to the United Nations to pay part of the required 1.6 billion euros.

WORKERS SUFFER UNTIL TODAY

The workers in the Chernobyl disaster helped to suffer today from serious health damage. The documents a study by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and the Society for Radiological Protection (JRC) .

Of 830 000 workers have died thus to 125 000 by 2005.

More than 90 percent of the surviving workers were now seriously ill. They suffer from cancer, organic brain damage, high blood pressure or gastrointestinal diseases report, the doctors. However, they expect that many other diseases such as cancer will only occur yet.

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