Ceram celebrates as Chernobyl milestone reached
NORTH Staffordshire materials technology company Ceram has successfully raised the first section of a huge structure that will cover the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
The firm carried out testing on a protective shell - or sarcophagus - being built to contain radiation at the site for another 100 years.
In April 1986, an explosion and fire at the Ukraine plant resulted in large volumes of radiation escaping and contaminating extensive parts of the USSR, as it was then, and Europe.
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