US to give $100 million to repair damaged Chornobyl nuclear shelter, Kyiv says

A Russian ​drone hit that structure in February ⁠last year. In a post on Telegram, ⁠Shmyhal ​said funding for repairs of the dome, at an estimated cost ⁠of 500 million euros ($584.95 million), was discussed with ⁠international ⁠partners at a recent conference about the plant.

The ​U.S. will ​give $100 million towards ‌repairs of ​the vast radiation containment dome at the ‌Chornobyl plant in northern Ukraine, site of the world's worst atomic accident in 1986, ‌after the dome was damaged ‌by a Russian drone, Kyiv's energy minister, Denys Shmyhal, said on Wednesday. One of Chornobyl's four ⁠reactors ​exploded in ⁠1986 and is now enclosed by a shelter ⁠to contain the lingering radiation. A Russian ​drone hit that structure in February ⁠last year.

In a post on Telegram, ⁠Shmyhal ​said funding for repairs of the dome, at an estimated cost ⁠of 500 million euros ($584.95 million), was discussed with ⁠international ⁠partners at a recent conference about the plant. ($1 = 0.8548 euros)