{"id":93489,"date":"2019-07-12T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/chernobyl-nuclear-reactor-that-devastated-the-region-is-finally-sealed-33-years-after-the-explosion"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:02:53","slug":"chernobyl-nuclear-reactor-that-devastated-the-region-is-finally-sealed-33-years-after-the-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/chernobyl-nuclear-reactor-that-devastated-the-region-is-finally-sealed-33-years-after-the-explosion","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor That Devastated the Region Is Finally Sealed\u201433 Years After the Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chernobyl-nuclear-reactor-that-devastated-the-region-is-finally-sealed-33-years-after-the-explosion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To finance the containment structure, the EBRD managed a fund with contributions from 45 countries, the European Union, and the bank\u2019s own resources. Ukraine contributed 100 million euros (about $112 million).<\/p>\n<p>Deputy project manager Victor Zalizetskyi, who has been part of construction and repairs at the Chernobyl plant since 1987, said he was \u201cfilled with pride\u201d that he got to work on a job \u201cthat has such a big importance for all humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Zalizetskyi expressed concern in an interview last week that war-torn Ukraine might struggle to cover the maintenance costs for the reactor\u2019s new enclosure. He noted that costly and complicated work such as dismantling unstable sections of the power plant still needs to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To finance the containment structure, the EBRD managed a fund with contributions from 45 countries, the European Union, and the bank\u2019s own resources. Ukraine contributed 100 million euros (about $112 million). Deputy project manager Victor Zalizetskyi, who has been part of construction and repairs at the Chernobyl plant since 1987, said he was \u201cfilled with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}