Word: accidentally
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Beyond the personal tragedy and waste is the cost to society. As drugs have moved out of the ghetto and into the workplace, as bus drivers and lawyers and assembly-line workers get hooked, innocent consumers are put at risk. The cost to employers from drug abuse -- from lost productivity...
"The liner sank instantly due to a very unfortunate blow struck by the freighter," Deputy Maritime Fleet Minister Leonid Nedyak told a press conference in Moscow less than 48 hours after the accident. "The point of impact was between the engine room and the boiler room and practically ripped the...
The painstaking and dangerous cleanup operation provided a grim backdrop for the Vienna talks. Throughout the week, the Soviets stuck to the assertion in their written report that the accident could easily have been avoided. In a five-hour presentation, Legasov explained that the operators of the Chernobyl reactor, while...
Even with new measures, experts doubted the RBMK reactor would meet Western safety standards. Said a member of the 21-person U.S. delegation: "The Soviets have taken some initial steps, the more obvious ones, but we are still not satisfied." Other Western specialists maintained that the RBMK units are obsolete...
Western nuclear engineers have avoided graphite-moderated reactors since a 1957 British accident damaged such a unit. Only one American commercial reactor, near Plateville, Colo., uses graphite. It is gas-cooled, however, and has a protective containment system of concrete, ceramic and steel.