US to give $100 million to repair damaged Chornobyl nuclear shelter, Kyiv says

KYIV, April 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. will give $100 million towards repairs of the vast radiation containment dome at the Chornobyl plant in northern Ukraine, site of the world's worst atomic accident in 1986, after the dome was damaged by a Russian drone, Kyiv's energy minister, Denys Shmyhal, said on Wednesday.

One of Chornobyl's four reactors exploded in 1986 and is now enclosed by a shelter to contain the lingering radiation. A Russian drone hit that structure in February last year.

In a post on Telegram, Shmyhal said funding for repairs of the dome, at an estimated cost of 500 million euros ($584.95 million), was discussed with international partners at a recent conference about the plant.

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