CHERNOBYL, April 27 – Construction a new safe confinement (NSC Shelter) at Chernobyl will be completed as scheduled, said deputy Chernobyl head Viktor Zalizetsky.

"Today, there are no any open issues that are in the stage of discussion and agreeing, as all the projects passed the regulating agencies, and it takes certain time. All technical parts have been settled today, financing has been settled, and the permanent routine and intense work is being done. There is a guarantee, that we will finish the project on November 30, 2017," he said at the NSC construction site on Sunday.

He said that the shelter is due to be completed by November 30, 2017, the eastern and western ends are to be sealed and all technological systems are to be launched and tested by then.