Word: accidentally
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On the surface, relations among the nearly 600 delegates to last week's symposium on the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were cordial, detached and scientific. After all, the Soviets had agreed to the extraordinary 62-nation conference, sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a spirit of international...
The debate was as much about the future of atomic power everywhere as it was about a single plant in the Ukraine. In the months since the Chernobyl blast sent clouds of radioactive debris into the air, 31 Soviet citizens have died and thousands of acres of prime land have...
Yet the conferees were unable to agree on even so basic a question as how many human lives the Chernobyl accident may claim. Morris Rosen, director of nuclear safety for IAEA, and Dan Beninson, chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, initially predicted that radiation from the disaster would...
The investigation of the accident is completed, but the cleanup effort at Chernobyl continues. In recent weeks it has been slowed to a crawl by a series of technical troubles. The biggest problem is to encase the reactor, which is still emitting dangerous radioactive particles, in a concrete tomb. The...
That novel saw a discontented American attempt to carve a new life in the Honduran tropics. O-Zone, Theroux's first venture into science fiction, is also a survival story. His 21st century America is a nation that has lived fast, aged young and offers life-support systems only to...