KIEV, Aug. 6 - Holtec International and the Ukrainian government-owned Chernobyl Nuclear Plant signed a protocol Friday to start the project to encase all of the irradiated nuclear fuel from Chernobyl's three undamaged reactors, Holtec reported.
The project, which anticipates storing the fuel into leak-tight containers, is funded by an "assembly" of industrialized countries that include the United States, most countries of Western Europe, Ukraine, and Japan.
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