Word: borovoi
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Sich, who is fluent in Ukrainian and learned Russian as a Harvard undergraduate, worked closely in Chernobyl with Russian scientist Alexander Borovoi, who is in charge of research at the nuclear facility. Borovoi allowed him to gain access to the site and all of its records...
...believe the sarcophagus was and still is the most dangerous structure in the nuclear industry," Borovoi, the Russian scientist who aided Sich, in an interview with the Globe...
...concrete barrier near the reservoir that supplies water to the 2.6 million residents of Kiev. More than 700 peasants evacuated in 1986 have quietly moved back to their farm plots, where they consume contaminated animals and produce. "They would rather die here than live somewhere else," says Alexander Borovoi, a Russian nuclear physicist in charge of the sarcophagus. Some returned to find their homes pillaged of religious art. Although contaminated with cesium 137 and strontium 90, some of the icons have probably entered the world art market...
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