Read the eyewitness report from aTomClarke from inside Western Europe's most hazardous place 👇
A window of thick lead glass shields us and the robot's operator from the radiation below. It looks like a fairground grabber, only instead of a teddy, the prize is a bucket full of intensely radioactive sludge.
Mr Halliwell has devoted much of his career to emptying the building - considered the only way to make it safe. For decades the waste has been dissolving into an intensely radioactive sludge releasing hydrogen gas into the air above it - a potentially explosive mix that has to be constantly ventilated.
Unlike the decaying concrete of its neighbour, the Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store is a vast concrete sarcophagus with walls more than two metres thick, served by an underground tunnel and robotic cranes that can shuttle waste in purpose-built boxes into the store without humans having to go anywhere near it.
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