Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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U.S. facilities are safer than Soviet ones in other ways. Unlike Soviet nuclear reactors, all NRC-licensed American installations are equipped with emergency core-cooling systems. These usually work by dumping tons of water into any reactor core that shows signs of overheating. Nor are U.S. reactors as likely to...
Finally, at 9:00 p.m. on Monday, an expressionless TV newscaster on Moscow television read a four-sentence statement from the Council of Ministers that seemed to raise at least as many questions as it answered. The terse, almost grudging announcement said in full: "An accident has taken place at...
The fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. Moreover, the accident seemed certain to put the worldwide use of nuclear power under still sharper attacks. In West Germany...
During the past year Mikhail Gorbachev has attempted to build an image of a new style of Moscow ruler--responsible, candid and sophisticated. Yet today's Soviet leadership looked very much like those of the past. Soviet credibility in Western Europe, which had been a target of much of the...
Throughout the week, an anxious, puzzled and increasingly frustrated world struggled to understand the extent of the disaster. The task was made impossibly difficult by the Soviets' stubborn refusal to provide anything more than a few sketchy details. Moscow's obstinance condemned people everywhere to fragmentary and often conflicting accounts...