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May 4, 2011

Russia calls for tighter nuclear safety rules

  • Ukraine wants to build a safer shelter over Chernobyl's damaged reactor, which would cost $300 million.
    • By MARIA DANILOVA
    Associated Press

    KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the international community to work out unified guidelines to prevent accidents such as the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago while continuing to develop nuclear energy.

    Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych spoke at a memorial ceremony outside Chernobyl's ravaged 4th nuclear reactor that exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe, and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in the most heavily hit areas in Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia.


     
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