'A nuclear tomb...'
The NSC is a gigantic structure — taller than the Statue of Liberty and large enough to fit the Roman Coliseum inside of it — designed to roll over the number 4 reactor that was at the epicenter of the 1986 disaster in 2016.
It's "a nuclear tomb to shelter to shelter the corpse of Chernobyl for a target of 100 years," Hill said in his video. To tour the inside of the NSC requires express permission from the government, and it isn't exactly for the faint of heart The process involves multiple checkpoints, radiation meters, and protective gear.
Given the health hazard involved, visitors are instructed to leave the area immediately if a certain threshold of radiation is met. "The ambient radiation rate is over 100 times higher than almost anywhere else in the [Chernobyl Exclusionary Zone]," Hill noted over the loud beeping of his radiation monitor.Workers at the site are now dismantling what remains of the reactor piece by piece using gigantic cranes inside of the NSC.
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