Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Natural Resources). All four reactors have been shut down. The nuclear power plant site clean-up is scheduled for completion in 2065. On January 3, 2010, a Ukrainian law stipulating a programme toward this objective came into effect. The V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station () as it was known during the Soviet times, consisted of four reactors of type RBMK-1000, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electric power (3.2 GW of thermal power), and the four together produced about 10% of Ukraine's electricity at the time of the disaster. The Chernobyl station is northwest of the city of
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant steel, wide, high and long to cover the old crumbling concrete dome that is currently in use. This steel casing project is expected to cost $1.4 billion, and is expected to be completed by 2017. The casing will also meet the definition of a nuclear entombment device. A separate deal has been made with the American firm Holtec to build a storage facility within the exclusion zone for nuclear waste produced by Chernobyl. On 14 November 2016, the arch began its expected five-day placement over the existing sarcophagus. However, it ended up taking fifteen days. It was completed on 29