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Vince Novak, Director of the Nuclear Safety Department with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which manages and co-funds the project praised Ukraine's commitment to the project. "It is definitely important for the bank and for the donors to know that there is a strong commitment in Ukraine to do everything necessary to ensure that the Chernobyl project progresses well," Novak told the Associated Press. "We have no room and margins for delay, for errors and for poor performance. Novak said some 1,000 workers are now beginning to piece together the giant arch from special French-made steel on an assembly site some 200 meters (yards) away from the exploded reactor. After it is assembled in the coming months, workers will begin to lift it in order to slide it over the reactor and the contours of the new confinement should become visible by the year's end. Preparatory work has been under way since 2008 and included cleaning up the assembly site, replacing contaminated soil with new earth and then putting it in concrete, which now enables employees to work without special radiation protection.
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