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French Staff Evacuated from Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
2013-02-14
[An Nahar] French construction firms Vinci and Bouygues said Wednesday they had evacuated as a precaution around 80 employees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after a section of the roof collapsed.
Mon Dieu! What is that thing?"
"It looks like... like... a thing! An ugly thing."
"Sacred Blue, Jean-Pierre! If that thing stands up..."
"It's standing up!"
"The roof!"
"Run!"

The two companies are working on constructing the sarcophagus structure covering the reactor that exploded in 1986 in the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Posted by:Fred

#1  in the world's worst nuclear disaster to date.
Posted by: Skidmark   2013-02-14 00:29  

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