Watch a live streaming of this ceremony on VINCI Construction’s YouTube Channel.
The end of the sliding operation is an historical progress and an exceptional technical achievement. It will be celebrated in Chernobyl on 29 November 2016 with the highest Ukrainian authorities representatives, Xavier Huillard Chairman & CEO of VINCI and the EBRD Vice-President Pierre Heilbronn attending.
You can watch a live streaming of this ceremony on VINCI Construction’s YouTube Channel.
The Chernobyl damaged reactor is now safely confined thanks to the work and dedication of the 10,000 employees of NOVARKA (50% VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader, and 50% Bouygues Travaux Publics) since the contract was signed in 2007. This project, stemming from the international ideas contest launched by Ukraine in 1992 and won by Campenon Bernard SGE (which later became VINCI Construction Grands Projets), allows both confinement and dismantling of the damaged reactor thanks to remote controlled tools installed inside the arch. The New safe Confinement has been built in front of the reactor, in a cleaned area, and then slid over 327 meters since the beginning of November 2016.
We’ve just completed the most important sliding operation ever done in the world, moving the biggest metallic structure (36,200 tonnes which can cover the Stade de France and whose weight is 3,5 times the weight of Eiffel Tower).
2017 will be dedicated to installation of the membranes to hermetically seal the arch over the damaged reactor, and to test the dismantling systems. The hand over is scheduled at the end of 2017.
[LIVE] You can watch a live streaming of Chernobyl reactor number 4 confinement ceremony on VINCI Construction’s YouTube Channel with the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_jPEzJaI0c
The ceremony starts at 12 noon in Chernobyl, i.e. 11am in Paris and 10am GMT.
