Word: chernobyls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austria and posed, au naturel, for photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked out of or denied access to nearly half a dozen European countries. He has threatened to restore Russia's imperial borders, annex Alaska, invade Turkey, repartition Poland, give Germany "another Chernobyl," turn Kazakhstan into a "scorched desert" and employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across the Baltics...
Before construction on the EuroDisney project was even completed, the theme park had already been condemned as a "cultural Chernobyl." And the self-proclaimed cultural critics have apparently won: Disney's venture on the outskirts of Paris currently loses $1 million...
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...