KIEV, Nov. 9 ??“ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced that in February 2007 it ill select a contractor to draft a design project, build and launch a new safe Shelter confinement facility over Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant??™s destroyed fourth reactor.

"The results of the tender to choose a contractor will be known in February 2007," acting deputy head of SIP project managing group Viktor Filimonov told journalists at Chernobyl on Thursday.