Design Goals
The New Safe Confinement (NSC) was designed with several design goals in mind:
- Convert the destroyed ChNPP Unit 4 into an environmentally safe system (i.e. contain the radioactive materials at the site to prevent further environmental contamination)
- Reduce corrosion and weathering of the existing shelter and the Unit 4 reactor building
- Mitigate the consequences of a potential collapse of either the existing shelter or the Unit 4 reactor building, particularly in terms of containing the radioactive dust that would be produced by such a collapse.
- Enable safe deconstruction of unstable structures (such as the roof of the existing shelter) by providing remotely operated equipment for their deconstruction.
Read more about this topic: Shelter Implementation Plan, Design and Construction, International Competition
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