Chornobyl’s €1.5bn containment structure
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built
to resist radiation, heat,
moisture and tornado
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Sydney Opera House and Statue of Liberty to scale
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
14 February drone strike punctured a 15-sq-metre
hole in the confinement building’s outer roof
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built to
resist radiation, moisture,
heat and tornado
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Sydney Opera House and Statue of Liberty to scale
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
14 February drone strike punctured a 15-sq-metre
hole in the confinement building’s outer roof
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built to resist
radiation, moisture, heat and tornado
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Sydney Opera House and Statue
of Liberty to scale
14 February drone strike
Punctured a 15-sq-metre hole in the
confinement building’s outer roof
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built to
resist radiation, moisture,
heat and tornado
Sydney Opera House and Statue
of Liberty to scale
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
14 February drone strike
Punctured a 15-sq-metre hole in the
confinement building’s outer roof
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built
to resist radiation, heat,
moisture and tornado
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Sydney Opera House and Statue of Liberty to scale
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
14 February drone strike punctured a 15-sq-metre
hole in the confinement building’s outer roof
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built to
resist radiation, moisture,
heat and tornado
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Sydney Opera House and Statue of Liberty to scale
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
14 February drone strike punctured a 15-sq-metre
hole in the confinement building’s outer roof
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built to resist
radiation, moisture, heat and tornado
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre
Sydney Opera House and Statue
of Liberty to scale
14 February drone strike
Punctured a 15-sq-metre hole in the
confinement building’s outer roof
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
Concrete sarcophagus
Hastily built to contain
reactor building No 4
Confinement building
Multilayered shell built to
resist radiation, moisture,
heat and tornado
Sydney Opera House and Statue
of Liberty to scale
110 metres
high
260 metres wide
14 February drone strike
Punctured a 15-sq-metre hole in the
confinement building’s outer roof
Turbine
hall
165 metres long
Control centre