The World - News from June 10, 1986
Soviet specialists have plugged the base of the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant with lead, precluding any risk of radioactive leakage from underneath it, Soviet scientist Nikolai Kocherov told a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Leningrad, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. Kocherov said that tunnels the size of subways also are being built to provide cooling for the area.
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