Konstantin Checherov This is Me

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1. 1. Ch+20 Conference Speakers

   www.ch20.org/speakers.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/23/2006   Last Visited: 1/1/2008

   Konstantin Checherov, senior scientist, Russian Scientific Center "Inctitute of Kurchatov"
   
   Bio: Worked as a deputy head of the IAE radiation material science department. He surveyed unit 4 in the summer of 1986, and worked in fields of up to 9000 roentgens per hour. He later worked in the Chernobyl combined expedition under I.V. Kurchatov IAE. He served as a senior research fellow, an acting head of the research department, and the fuel research laboratory head. At the same time, he was a deputy head of the research department. After the disintegration of the USSR, the IAE combined expedition turned into the Containment IRC. He was the head of the fuel-containing mass topology laboratory, and the head of accident processes (reconstruction) department. Being the head of the group for nuclear physical studies on the problems of the post-accident unit 4 of the ChNPP, he used to spend a couple of weeks per month at the unit. Problems related to Unit 4 are still a major part of his activities. He is a laureate of the international competition to turn the Containment into an environmentally safe system (Pluton Ukrainian-Russian project). He worked as an expert in SIP B and D packages, a member of IAEA missions for physical protection of the Containment nuclear materials and for control of non-proliferation of the Containment nuclear materials. He currently works as a senior research fellow in Kurchatov Institute Russian Scientific Center. Like many of his friends who worked with him inside unit 4, he thinks those were the best years of his (their) life, he states that "I do not feel myself as a Chornobyl victim at all."

2. 2. www.bhopal.net

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   Published on: 6/25/2006   Last Visited: 6/11/2008

   Journalists Frank Nordhausen and Christian Esch cite Konstantin Checherov of the Russian Kurchatov Institute, who has "spoken the truth" at long last, they say.
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   Checherov said "nobody studied the Chernobyl disaster more carefully" than he.
   
   Thousands of specialists from many states have visited the accident site in the 20 years since the disaster.
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   Velikhov is worried: "It is one thing for Checherov as a private individual to say what he likes.
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   "I know Konstantin Checherov; we are colleagues, though he is not a nuclear physicist" he said.
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   Checherov presumes that a nuclear explosion took place at the reactor, which vaporized the fuel at a temperature of 40000°C (72032°F).
   
   "Checherov is arguing as an amateur who knows nothing about the laws of nuclear physics," said nuclear physicist Boris Gorbachev from Kiev, who had worked in Chernobyl for 18 years.
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   If Checherov is right and the reactor is truly empty, why build a new containment envelope, for which the European Union has allocated hundreds of millions of euros?To believe Checherov, Russia is deceiving Europe in order to get more money from Europe.

3. 3. Conference Agenda

   www.ch20.org/agenda.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/23/2006   Last Visited: 1/1/2008

   Speaker 3: Konstantin Checherov, senior scientist, Russian Scientific Center "Inctitute of Kurchatov"