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Experts from the Research and Development Institute of Building Structures and Kyiv Research and Design Institute Energoproekt have been invited for thorough technical examination of the wrecked turbine room at the Generating Unit No. 4 of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and designing a covering for the turbine room. 

A posting on the Web site of Chornobyl NPP reads that experts of the NPP’s construction service have completed their examination of partially collapsed ceiling at the turbine room.

No information about the results of the examination was mentioned in the posting.

On Feb. 12, 2013, several concrete slabs fell off the ceiling in a turbine room at Chornobyl NPP. The site of the accident was an area of 600 square meters. As can be seen from pictures released by the Emergencies Service of Ukraine, the collapse occurred in the turbine room of Generating Unit No. 4, which was badly damaged in the 1986 disaster.

The radiation levels did not change on the territory of the Chornobyl NPP and in the Exclusion Zone around it. No one was injured by the collapsed slabs.

On Feb. 13, French builders working on the construction of the new safe confinement at the Chornobyl NPP temporarily left Chornobyl to make sure themselves that it was safe to continue building work at the NPP.

The personnel of the nuclear power plant works according to a normal schedule today.

“The accident that occurred in the turbine room of the fourth nuclear reactor poses no danger to the environment. The joint venture of the Chornobyl NPP, in turn, announced there were no changes in the radiation levels associated with this event,” Head of the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone Volodymyr Holosha said.