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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...
...April 27, the day after the accident, orders were given to six helicopter pilots to begin dumping materials on the reactor to put out the blaze...
Sich, however, said this measure was totally ineffective because the pilots actually missed the reactor core by about 50 feet...
...bombs. Rather the report concludes there is a "somewhat better than even" chance that they have one or two. Even so, the Koreans' arsenal is not growing now. In order to obtain more plutonium for bombs, the North Koreans would have to turn off and cool down the reactor so its fuel rods could be removed. Infrared sensors aboard satellites would detect any such action. So far, close scrutiny has not revealed any recent shutdown...