Word: accidentally
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To most of the world, the Chernobyl nuclear accident was a disaster of terrifying proportions. But for the specialists struggling to save lives at Moscow Hospital No. 6, the mishap created a kind of medical classroom--a unique if horrific opportunity to learn how to cope with large-scale exposure...
For 18 days his silence resounded around the world. Then finally last week Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev publicly acknowledged the gravity of the April 26 accident that destroyed a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power station in the Ukraine and spread radioactive fallout across the globe. "For the first time...
The 25-minute speech was more than just an official explanation of the Chernobyl disaster, which forced the evacuation of nearly 100,000 Soviet people. It was a dogged effort by Gorbachev to strike back at foreign critics and limit the severe damage to Soviet prestige caused by the accident...
In Washington the Reagan Administration called Gorbachev's charges unfounded. Said a White House statement: "If some reports carried in the mass media were in fact inaccurate, this was an inevitable result of the extreme secrecy with which the Soviet authorities dealt with the accident in the days immediately following...
In his talk, Gorbachev spoke more deliberately about the suffering at Chernobyl. He reported that two workers had been killed by the initial explosion and flames that tore through the plant at 1:23 in the morning, and that seven other people had died after being treated for acute radiation...