Burying the horrors of Chernobyl: Extraordinary images of giant steel arch which will shut off radioactive site as countryside remains desolate 27 years on

This is the huge steel arch that will entomb Chernobyl's reactor four, and slash the risk of another radioactive disaster.
The construction, which is one of the biggest engineering projects in history, is being built to seal off nuclear fuel buried inside reactor four which blew up in 1986.
Standing 360 feet tall, and 843 feet wide, the arch will be held together by 680,000 bolts.


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