Word: chernobyl
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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MOSCOW--In an article linking the Chernobyl disaster with a history of Soviet bureaucratic bungling, a leading Russian newspaper yesterday criticized the choice of an often-flooded riverbank as the site for the nuclear power plant...
Oleinik traced the negligence which he blamed for the Chernobyl disaster to a long history of bureaucratic ineptitude in the country as a whole...
...century, is simple: food passes through a lead-shielded concrete chamber where radioactive cobalt 60 or cesium 137 bombards it with gamma rays, killing insects and bacteria and sometimes slowing ripening. The food does not become radioactive. "There's nothing in common at all between a nuclear reactor like Chernobyl and an irradiator," says Karl Abraham, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). "It's like comparing bananas to tigers." Treated food "can be immediately eaten," says George Giddings, director of food irradiation at Isomedix...
...designer drug called MPTP circulated through Northern California and left scores suffering from a frightening side effect: Parkinson's disease. If drugs like MPTP become as popular as cocaine, warns Ian Irwin, a San Jose neurotoxologist, "you would have the makings of a real national disaster. It would make Chernobyl look minor...
Still, the Soviets announced that they have shut down and are modifying about half of the country's 14 RBMK-1000 Chernobyl-type reactors. Legasov said the overhaul will include the addition of more control rods to slow down nuclear fission in the water-cooled reactor core. Operators will have only limited ability to withdraw the rods, and a safer blend of uranium fuel is being developed...