Word: chernobyl
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...American press has also been under steady attack by the Soviet Union ever since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. This takes true totalitarian gall. In the first few days, when the Soviets were hiding the facts, many American papers carried the U.P.I. report of 2,000 deaths, from an anonymous source in Kiev, but scrupulously did not sensationalize what could not be verified. The one major exception was the New York Post, that cynical tabloid that continues to lose millions for its Australian-born publisher, Rupert Murdoch. The Post used half its front page for a black headline MASS GRAVE, adding...
...through Moscow's Olympic Stadium last week as some of the Soviet Union's most popular bands belted out their hottest numbers. Tickets for the three-hour event, styled after Western charity extravaganzas, raised about $150,000 for victims of the devastating accident that destroyed a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant on April 26. Money from the benefit, known as Account No. 904, after the special Soviet fund that received the donations, will help provide clothing, household goods and temporary shelter for the 92,000 people evacuated from Ukrainian towns near the dangerously radioactive plant. Last week's event...
While the pop performers entertained the crowd of some 25,000, the condition of many radiation victims worsened. Dr. Robert Gale, the UCLA bone-marrow specialist who has been assisting Soviet doctors in Moscow, reported that the death toll from Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger...
...Soviets continued to try to link the Chernobyl disaster to the dangers of radiation in a nuclear war. In Cologne, Yevgeni Chazov, a Soviet surgeon and Deputy Health Minister, warned that "the accident proved that medicine will be helpless if even a few nuclear bombs are detonated." Along with U.S. Surgeon Bernard Lown, Chazov received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Chazov's remarks, delivered before a meeting of the organization, drew a sharp rebuke from members of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Party, which supports nuclear power...
...released new details of the accident. Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, conceded that the 25,000 evacuees from Pripyat, the town nearest the plant, will probably never return to their homes. Velikhov said that while radiation levels have dropped sharply about 40 miles from Chernobyl, extensive decontamination measures will be needed to make the immediate vicinity livable. He said the shattered reactor core, which is being entombed in concrete, remains hot beneath the 5,000-ton pile of sand, lead pellets and boron that helicopters have dumped to seal in radiation. Said Velikhov: "I would...