Shahhamed's Russian "Chared" on the Sarcophagus at the Chernobyl: The "shelter" object is destroyed - engineers

The engineers did not take into account the fighting, said the American newspaper The New York Times Engineer Eric Schmman, who was a senior technical advisor to the project for 15 years. The steel shell over the Chernobyl is the world's largest moving structure. Its height is equal to the length of the football field, and the weight is almost 40,000 tons. More than 45 countries and organizations have spent about $ 1. 7 billion on its construction.

Shahamed's Russian Dron Dron Kamikadze has shot a hole in a steel shell of a protective sarcophagus. The fire was quickly extinguished, but the waterproof membrane inside the insulation of the arch was burning and smoldering for almost three weeks, said the head of the department of operation of the structure Artem Gray. Rescuers punched the holes in the outer layer of the shield, searched for fire and sprayed water inside the structure.

However, according to the project, it must be dry to prevent corrosion, Ukrainian officials and international experts say. Ukraine officially announced the full extinguishing of the fire on March 7. By that time, according to officials, the fire damaged to half of the northern part of the shelter. The level of radiation near the Chernobyl shelter is normal, but it is unclear how much time it will take. There are risks of corrosion of the steel shell, the shelter can gradually collapse.

Greenpeace of Nuclear Technology Specialist Jan Wanda Putte said that the protective object is not functioning as designed, and in the future it is necessary to replace the entire shelter. "The complete recovery of the object is almost impossible. To bring it closer to the original state, hundreds of millions of dollars will be required," Gray explained. You can temporarily close the holes with an adhesive tape to make the ventilation system inside the humidity.

Eric Schmman is convinced that drones can help with the problem. Small devices may be able to evaluate damage inside the shell and even help eliminate them. We will remind, the shock drone of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the object "shelter" on the night of February 14 and exploded. The President's office then said that the Russians specifically attacked the object. In February 2025, the Government of Ukraine allocated 1.