Donors pledge cash to keep Chernobyl safe 30 years after disaster

[WorldNews]

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Global donors on Monday pledged additional money to help Ukraine keep Chernobyl safe for generations after causing the world's worst nuclear power disaster 30 years ago. The 87.5-million-euro ($99 million) commitment toward the construction of a new spent nuclear waste storage facility comes on the eve of the former Soviet republic's commemoration of an accident whose death toll remains in dispute to this day. Ukraine will still need to find an additional 15 million euros for the underground site to be able to start safely storing the hazardous material in metal caskets by the end of the year.

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