Chernobyl set to leave past behind

  • 11/12/2000

This week, at midday on Friday, a duty engineer at Chernobyl nuclear power station will press an inconspicuous button and begin the shutdown of the plant that caused the world's worst civil nuclear disaster.That is if the station is operating - it has been forced to shut down twice in the last three weeks due to collapsed power lines and leaking steam, highlighting the jitters Chernobyl causes around the world.