YAHOO: …United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon visited the site of the Chernobyl disaster a day after world donors pledged 550 million euros ($800 million) towards a permanent shelter to secure the ruined reactor, which exploded on April 26, 1986.
Speaking in Kiev afterwards, he warned that the recent quake damage to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant showed that accidents like Chernobyl were likely to occur again in the future.
“The unfortunate truth is we are likely to see more such disasters. The world has witnessed an unnerving history of nuclear accidents,” he said at a conference, calling for a global debate on the safety of nuclear energy…. (more)
