KIEV, March 7 – Ukraine is planning to mount the support arch of the new safe containment structure at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) by the middle of 2015, Head of the Ukrainian State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone Volodymyr Kholosha said.

"We have to mount the new arch by the middle of 2015, install it in the projected position, and carry out hermetic encapsulation by the end of 2015," he said.