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Dr. Robert P. Gale, a U.S. bone marrow specialist helping care for Chernobyl radiation victims in Moscow, arranged to go to Kiev yesterday to check on patients hospitalized there and discuss long-term medical care and case follow-ups. At least 299 people were hospitalized immediately after the accident. Kiev...
Domanyuk, party head in Prepay, the town adjoining the Chernobyl plant, said the government commission investigating the April 26 accident in the plant's No. 4 reactor wanted to get reactors No. 1 and No. 2 going in October. Speaking in an interview on the national television evening news, Domanyuk...
Reactors No. 1 and No. 2, shut down immediately after the accident, are in a separate building from No. 4. Soviet media accounts said the roof of the No. 3 reactor was damaged by fire, but that the third reactor itself was intact.
The Soviets last week disclosed a few new details about the accident. In Vienna, Boris Semyonov, a governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency, raised the official death toll from nine victims to 15, and said that 20 people remain gravely ill from radiation sickness. Members of the energy agency...
However safe they may prove to be, such designs will probably not be ready for wide-scale use before the turn of the century. Meanwhile, politicians, no less than engineers, will have to confront people's nuclear fears. Having argued for so long that nightmares like Chernobyl could virtually never...