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Alexander Sich '90, who has just completed an 18-month investigation of the Chernobyl site, told the newspaper that, in contrast to official Soviet reports, there was a complete meltdown of the reactor core during the 1986 disaster...
Eight years after the explosion at the Chernobyl 4 nuclear reactor in Ukraine, an MIT graduate student has concluded the accident was far worse than previously thought, according to an article in Sunday's Boston Globe...
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...
After the core spread, it cooled down and "froze" in place. It is still frozen today in the Chernobyl plant...
Workers also built a dike to stop radioactive material from leaking into the Pripyat River, located near the Chernobyl site...