President Petro Poroshenko has awarded 15 persons with the Order of Merit, 3d class for the construction of the confinement (Shelter facility) over the destroyed Power Unit 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (Kyiv Region).
Ukrainian News Agency learned this from Decree 524 of November 28.
Frenchman Nicolas Caille (Project Director for Novarka) and Americans Lorene Dodd and Ronald Ray Hink (directors of the Shelter Facility Action Plan project management group in 2006–2014 and 2014–2015 respectively) are among the awarded.
Serhii Kondratenko (Deputy Director for Shelter facility), Volodymyr Kashtanov (Chief Engineer at Shelter Facility Action Plan) and Viktor Khavrus (the head of the Chornobyl NPP construction service) were awarded too.
Viktor Mykytas, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ukrenergomontazh in 2008–2016, was awarded post mortem
The same order bestowed the medal For Labour and Valour on eight persons for considerable personal contribution to the overcoming of the aftereffects of the Chornobyl disaster, exemplary discharge of their duties, and high professionalism shown during the construction of the Chornobyl NPP confinement.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said that the structure, covering the Chornobyl NPP Unit 4 destroyed in 1986, has been slid into position.
The New Safe Confinement is 108 metres high and 162 metres long, and has a span of 257 metres and a lifetime of a minimum of 100 years. The arch-shaped structure weighs some 36,000 tonnes. Its total cost is EUR 1.5 billion.
The explosion at the Chornobyl NPP Unit 4 on April 26, 1986 is the worst man-caused disaster in the world history.
A concrete sarcophagus known as the Shelter facility was built over the damaged reactor in 1986 to isolate it.
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