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Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers and the European Union are gathering in Kiev for a conference marking 25 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which has been brought into sharper focus by the nuclear crisis at Fukushima in Japan. A European-backed venture foresees construction of a new shell over Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor, which blew up in April 1986, to contain radioactivity leaking through a makeshift shelter from hundreds of tons of radioactive material inside. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday that the Commission would allocate an extra 110 million euros toward this and allied Chernobyl projects. "We hope our key partners will also step up their contributions in order to complete the works of the shelter by 2015," he said. G8 countries were expected to put up a total of 332.8 million euros, diplomatic sources, quoted by Interfax news agency, said. But a Commission official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said total pledges were likely to come far below the 740 million euros that Ukraine sought. "If we get more than 500 million euros we will regard it as a success," the official said, adding that there was a question mark over the contribution from Japan, normally one of the main donors on Chernobyl. "They are now looking to see how much money there is to solve their own problems," the official said. Two hours before Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was scheduled to open the event in central Kiev, nine women staged a bare-breasted demonstration in front of the conference hall, accusing his administration of undemocratic practices. The women, of the Femen protest movement, held up placards and chanted slogans like "Political Chernobyl" and "Yanukovich is worse than radiation." [ID:nLDE6AC094] They were arrested. 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