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How a company from Baden-Württemberg helped contain the Chernobyl disaster

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After the devastating disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a company from Baden-Württemberg helped to contain the crisis. © IMAGO/Valery Zufarov

38 years ago, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred. A company from Baden-Württemberg helped to contain the crisis.

In August 1986, a Soviet engineer operates the huge concrete mixers of the Swabian manufacturer Putzmeister to cast the sarcophagus for the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Stuttgart – On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in the history of civilian use of nuclear energy occurred in Chernobyl. The consequences of the accident are still felt today, Pripyat remains an abandoned ghost town and the entire zone is cordoned off. Machines from a company in Baden-Württemberg were used to contain the life-threatening radiation. BW24 read, how exactly a company from Baden-Württemberg helped to contain the Chernobyl disaster.

Almost exactly 37 years later, in April 2023, The last nuclear reactor in Baden-Württemberg was shut down.

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