KIEV, April 21 – Saudi Arabia will donate $20 million towards the international effort to seal Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, increasing the total size of the fund to $810 million, the Ukrainian foreign ministry reported.
Ukraine needs an overall of $1.06 billion to finish the construction of the shelter by 2015 that would seal the damaged reactor in Chernobyl for the next 100 years.
The continuing economic and credit problems, as well as ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima in Japan have led to a situation that some countries had failed to donate the money.
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