GOING NUCLEAR
CHERNOBYL WAKES
n 2016, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine finally received a permanent containment structure. This reinforced the hastily constructed concrete “sarcophagus” poured over it in the immediate aftermath of the 1986 meltdown that spread radioactive contamination across Europe, turned the nearby city of Pripyat into a ghost town () and created an eerie exclusion zone of nearly 1,000 square miles (2,600km2). It was intended to minimise the continuing risk from the tons of
