Govt submits bill to Rada on repairing Chornobyl NPP containment structure after drone attack
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law On amendments to the National Program for the decommissioning of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the transformation of the 'Shelter' into an environmentally safe system, which provides, in particular, for the repair of the safe confinement structures following a Russian drone attack.
The Ukrainian government has submitted a draft law to the Verkhovna Rada to repair the containment structures of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant following a Russian drone strike. The bill, registered under No. 15513, aims to extend the current program's implementation period until 2036 and allocate the necessary funding for the repairs.
The Prime Minister, Serhiy Koretsky, is the initiator of the bill. The Cabinet of Ministers has not yet published the full text of the document and its explanatory note. The attack on the containment structure of Chornobyl NPP's Unit 4 in April 2025 is believed to be intentional based on expert analyses. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy estimated the cost of a major overhaul of the sarcophagus to be around EUR 500 million.
The United States pledged $100 million for the repair, while the EBRD contributed EUR 30 million for the first phase of containment restoration. Norway also pledged an additional NOK 100 million for the restoration of the New Safe Confinement damaged by the drone attack.
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