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Article: '99 Deadline Set for Closing Of Chernobyl; Ukraine, Europe Agree, But Funding Uncertain
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- The Washington Post
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- April 14, 1995
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Ukraine has agreed to close the Chernobyl power plant, site of the
world's most catastrophic nuclear accident, within five years,
Ukrainian and European officials announced today.
The decision appeared to have broken a months-long stall in talks
between Ukraine and Western nations over closing the plant, one of
whose reactors exploded in 1986, spewing radioactivity over much of
Europe. French Environment Minister Michel Barnier, representing the
15-nation European Union, praised the "courageous and important
decision" by President Leonid Kuchma and said the EU would press the
United States and Japan to join in contributing new money to help
Ukraine absorb the costs of shutting Chernobyl ...