Chernobyl New Safe Confinement
Coordinates: 51°23′22″N 30°05′36″E / 51.389319°N 30.093205°E
The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter) is a structure intended to contain the remains of the No. 4 unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and the temporary "sarcophagus" built immediately after the disaster.
A part of the Shelter Implementation Plan funded by the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, the NSC was designed with the primary goal of containing the radioactive remains of Chernobyl Unit 4 and the sarcophagus for the next 100 years, preventing the reactor complex from leaking radioactive material into the environment. It is also intended to allow a future partial demolition of the sarcophagus. The sarcophagus was hastily constructed by Chernobyl liquidators after a "beyond design-basis accident" destroyed reactor 4 on April 26, 1986.
The word confinement is used rather than the traditional containment to emphasize the difference between the "containment" of radioactive gases that is the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings, and the "confinement" of solid radioactive waste that is the primary purpose of the New Safe Confinement.
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