Chernobyl Plant Shut Down for Good
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From Times Wire Reports
Chernobyl was shut down forever with the flip of a switch, shifting attention to needed repairs on the sarcophagus covering the nuclear plant’s ruined reactor, which is leaking radiation 14 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident. At a state ceremony in Kiev, the capital, President Leonid D. Kuchma gave the order to halt Chernobyl’s last working reactor over a video linkup with the plant.
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