The government estimates that the new repository will save up $200 million dollars a year in fees paid to Moscow for spent fuel and waste handling. The new waste site will be used to store the spent fuel and other radioactive waste these reactors produce, theoretically allowing Ukraine to cease shipping its nuclear castoffs to Russia for processing and storage. Like Chernobyl, these reactors, nearly all of which have reached their retirement age of 40 years, became Kiev’s responsibility when the country gained independence from Moscow in 1991. The country operates 15 nuclear reactors that it inherited from the Soviet Union. Ukrainian authorities are undertaking to use the deserted area surrounding the stricken plant to build a facility that would store nuclear waste for at least 100 years, and the new repository is expected to open this year. “Today the new repository has been put into operation and it is very important that today a license to maintain the new repository will be obtained.” “Ukraine is not alone, it has wide support from its partners,” Zelenskyy said. To mark the anniversary of the disaster, Volodymyr Zelensky visited the site with Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and vowed to “transform the exclusion zone, as Chernobyl is referred to, into a revival zone.” Ukraine’s president has unveiled plans for a new nuclear waste repository at Chernobyl, which 35 years ago this week became the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, driving tens of thousands from their homes and leaving contamination that will linger for hundreds of years. A group of liquidators getting ready to remove radioactive debris.

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