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The fire was extinguished by a combined effort of helicopters dropping over 5,000 metric tons of sand, lead, clay, and boron onto the burning reactor and injection of liquid nitrogen. By December 1986 a large concrete sarcophagus had been erected, to seal off the reactor and its contents.