The sarcophagus entombed over 200 tons of highly radioactive corium lava 30 tons of highly contaminated dust and 16 tons of exposed uranium and plutonium.
A dozen or so operators dressed in military uniform were almost entombed by the rows of instruments, as though they were crouching inside battlefield trenches.
When finished, the 250-meter-wide steel arch is to slide 200 meters to cover the sarcophagus hastily built after the 1986 explosion to entomb Chernobyl Reactor Number 4.
In regions with heavy snowfall, like Canada, Scandinavia, and Northern Asia, entire towns disappear into the icy tundra, entombing human structures in mountains of white snow.
But men too had had their trials, and the conversation went off into certain philosophical reflections. Emma expatiated much on the misery of earthly affections, and the eternal isolation in which the heart remains entombed.
" That was the toughest journey I ever had the misfortune to undertake, and I'm glad it's over. Yet, unless I can manage to fly to the top of this pit, we are entombed here forever" .