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Fueled by the white-hot graphite core of one of Chernobyl's four reactors, the runaway blaze burned at temperatures of up to 5000 degrees , or twice that of molten steel. The crippled reactor itself was unapproachable--too hot from the fire ravaging it, too dangerous radioactively. "No one knows how to stop it," said one U.S. expert. "It could take weeks to burn itself...
Adelman said temperatures reached as high as 4000 degrees Centigrade (7232 degrees Fahrenheit) at the graphite-cooled reactor. He said the graphite is burning and will continue to burn "for a good number of days...
Reports reaching the State Department saidSoviet authorities were hampered in their effortsto put out the fire because of the intense heat.They were also concerned that dousing the firecould create more radioactivity than simplyletting the reactor burn, according to a sourcewho asked to remain anonymous...
...have an air danger near Kiev and a waterdanger if the core should burn down to the water[table] line," Adelman said...
...South Africa's black townships during the past year and a half. Some 1,450 people have been killed in clashes with police and by fire bombings and brutal "necklacings," in which young radicals place gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected traitors to the antiapartheid cause and burn them alive. But the anger is deeply rooted, and recently a new strain of violence has begun to emerge in the black communities. Groups of conservative blacks, angered by radical tactics, are starting to strike out at other blacks. No one knows exactly how many of the locally organized vigilante...