On November 29, 2016, the official ceremony of New Safe Confinement (NSC) Arch installing in the design position took place. This event was preceded by four years of hard and painstaking, without exaggeration - creative work of Chornobyl NPP team, the main construction contractor, NOVARKA joint venture (consortium consisting of two French companies: Bouygues and Vinci), a number of foreign and Ukrainian subcontractor organizations, research institutions at institutes.
To build NSC, 45 donor countries have joined efforts with Ukraine in a specially established fund administrated by EBRD and pledged more than 1.5 billion euros. In total, 10,000 employees from 40 countries, 5,000 of them Ukrainians, were involved in the project.
The ceremonial event was preceded by four years of the Arch structure construction, which was intended to cover Chornobyl Unit 4 destroyed as a result of the accident, and two dramatic weeks of NSC Arch construction sliding on the Shelter object. A huge structure weighing 36.2 thousand tons using the complex jacks system was moved along the special foundations for sliding 327 meters and installed in the design position.
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On 29th of October, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine, Mr. Etienne de Poncins, and Economic Attaché, Ms. Mathilde Arjakovsky, made an official visit to Chornobyl NPP.
On October 22, Chornobyl NPP was visited by engineers of the University of Bristol. Their task was to test the remotely controlled robots under the Exclusion Zone conditions, and one of such robots was a world famous Spot, a robot-dog, developed by the Boston Dynamics.
ChNPP will cooperate with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in field of radioactively contaminated materials decontamination.