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Workers from Bouygues Construction and other companies began to move the New Safe Confinement, or NSC, into position to cover the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in order to protect it from leaking radioactive material. The NSC project will replace the original Soviet shell installed after the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986. The NSC is expected to safely contain Chernobyl's radioactive emissions for the next 100 years.
The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi says Chernobyl's radiation levels are now "normal" after they rose during Russia's occupation of the power plant "because of the movement of the heavy equipment that the Russian forces were bringing", as the IAEA chief pays a visit to the infamous power station on the anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster. SOUNDBITE
Check out the Chototel, a super budget hotel set to open in India's Maharashtra State which is set to charge just $2 a night for a stay in one of its compact rooms. Chototel’s managers gave Ruptly a tour through some of the budget rooms soon to be available. The company will provide electricity, water and gas to residents, but utilities will be charged on a consumption basis, which is expected to discourage waste and keep costs down. Chototel, a London headquartered business which provides housing solutions for underprivileged people, claims to have conceived the idea "out of the need to provide quality and dignified housing solutions in a global market that fails to cater to those at the bottom of the pyramid". Would you stay the night in a super budget room?
Thirty years after the worst man made catastrophe 'The Chernobyl nuclear disaster' some people to continue to live in the area. They are called the 'Self Settlers' and their life is easier than ever.
Recent findings show milk from farms near the city of Pripyat contain a radioactive isotope 10 times higher than the allowed limit, as Ukraine today marked the 30th anniversary of a disastrous explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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