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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...
...Sich's research was part of his doctoral dissertation for the MIT nuclear engineering department...
...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...
...Chernobyl Revisited: Myths, On-Site Findings, and Their Implications." Alexander Sich, Ph.D. candidate in nuclear engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seminar Room, URI, 1583 Mass...
...Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure is so unsteady that a strong windstorm could smash it, sending a plume of radioactive dust into the atmosphere. "Nothing is being done to clean it up," says Alex Sich, an American engineer who has studied the Chernobyl site...