Chernobyl Containment Funding Talks Lined Up

KYIV, Ukraine—The completion of a new enclosure for the radioactive remains of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is in sight despite continued turmoil in Ukraine’s east as international institutions ready new funding for the decades-long project.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Commission plan to hold a Chernobyl donors’ conference—possibly the last—in London on April 29, the institutions said…