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The language was thick and bureaucratic, but there it was in black and white. In an official report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Soviet Union admitted that the men and women operating the Chernobyl atomic- power power plant were responsible for the worst nuclear-reactor accident in...
That is how it was immediately after last April's accident at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Only after furious protests and demands for information from Sweden and other Western countries did the Soviets even admit that anything had occurred, and then they limited themselves to terse statements that only increased...
The report delivered to the IAEA and outlined at a Soviet press conference in Moscow last week, was one of the more startling examples of a new Soviet openness. Not only does the two-volume, 430- page document assign guilt for the catastrophe but it includes page after page of...
While some Westerners found the report's analysis distorted and incomplete, most were impressed by its thoroughness, its spirit of self-criticism and the promptness with which it was prepared. Said Kennedy Maize, a senior analyst at the Washington office of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that has...
On Dec. 3, 1984, a cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate gas poured out of the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing more than 2,000 people. Since then, Carbide officials have offered allegations that the world's worst industrial accident may have been the result of a deliberate...