New Safe Confinement

The New Safe Confinement is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the , in , which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: containment structure for the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Chernobyl New Safe Confinement”, “L’Arche de Tchernobyl”, “New Shelter”, “NSC”, “Nuevo Sarcofago de Chernobyl”, “sarcophage de Tchernobyl”, “Аб’ект «Укрыцьцё-2»”, “НБК”, “Новая защитная оболочка”, “Новий саркофаг ЧАЕС”, “Новы бясьпечны канфайнмэнт”, “Новы саркафаг ЧАЭС”, “切爾諾貝利核電站新石棺”, and “車諾比新安全圍堵體”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

Power station
Photo: Ingmar Runge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a former nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of in northern , 16.5 kilometres northwest of the city of , 16 kilometres from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres north of . is situated 390 metres east of New Safe Confinement.

Industrial building
Photo: Roman Harak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus, also known as the Object Shelter or Shelter Object is a massive steel and concrete structure covering the nuclear reactor number 4 building of the .

Memorial
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is situated 330 metres northwest of New Safe Confinement.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yaniv and Pripyat.

Locality
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is an abandoned village in , , northern . It is located south of and west of the . is situated 3 km west of New Safe Confinement.

Town
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, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in , Ukraine, located near the border with . Named after the nearby river , it was founded on 4 February 1970. is situated 3½ km northwest of New Safe Confinement.

Locality
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is a former village near , , just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated and is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; thus it has been abandoned since 1986. is situated 5 km southeast of New Safe Confinement.

New Safe Confinement

Latitude
51.38924° or 51° 23′ 21″ north
Longitude
30.09878° or 30° 5′ 56″ east
Inception
November 27th, 2017
Height
110 metres (361 feet)
Width
165 metres (541 feet)
Roof shape
round
Open location code
9G3G93QX+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 456732992
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1506085
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“New Safe Confinement” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حاجز تشيرنوبيل الآمن الجديد”
  • Arabic: “حاجز تشيرنوبيل الأمن الجديد”
  • Basque: “Txernobylgo sarkofago berria”
  • Belarusian: “Новы чарнобыльскі саркафаг”
  • Chinese: “切尔诺贝利核电站新石棺”
  • Chinese: “新遮蔽結構體”
  • Chinese: “新遮蔽结构体”
  • Czech: “Nový kryt Černobylské jaderné elektrárny”
  • Czech: “Nový sarkofág”
  • French: “Arche de Tchernobyl”
  • French: “nouvelle arche de confinement”
  • German: “Neuer Sarkophag”
  • German: “New Safe Confinement”
  • Hausa: “Sabuwar Tsaro ta Chernobyl”
  • Hungarian: “Csernobili Acél Szarkofág”
  • Indonesian: “Kubah Pengaman Baru Chernobyl”
  • Italian: “New Safe Confinement”
  • Italian: “Nuovo sarcofago d’acciaio”
  • Japanese: “チェルノブイリ新安全閉じ込め構造物”
  • Japanese: “新安全閉じ込め構造物”
  • Lithuanian: “Černobylio naujasis apsauginis gaubtas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nauja apsauginė arka”
  • Polish: “Nowa Bezpieczna Powłoka”
  • Russian: “Новый безопасный конфайнмент”
  • Russian: “Новый чернобыльский саркофаг”
  • Russian: “Укрытие-2”
  • Slovenian: “Nova varna zapora Černobil”
  • Spanish: “Nuevo sarcófago de Chernóbil”
  • Spanish: “Nuevo Sarcófago de Chernobyl”
  • Ukrainian: “Новий безпечний конфайнмент”
  • Ukrainian: “Укриття-2”

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Highlights include Reactor #4 and Solar Chernobyl.

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