Word: chernobyls
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...conception, there is no center, only a coordinating organ that will regulate some relations"--such as control of nuclear weapons and cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, said Kravchuk, who has pledged not to sign the Union Treaty...
...leaders of pro-independence movements in the non-Russian republics were virtually unanimous in demanding the removal of Soviet nukes. One parliament after another passed resolutions proclaiming nuclear-free zones. Popular support for such measures was strongest in Ukraine and Belorussia, which are permanently scarred by the Chernobyl disaster, and Kazakhstan, where radioactive "venting" from underground testing at Semipalatinsk has caused generations of children to be born deformed and diseased...
There were other signs of runaway corruption. The party had a colossal 1991 deficit of 1 billion rubles on a budget of 2.5 billion rubles. One party source charged that a 500 million-ruble fund for the children of Chernobyl was diverted by local party committees to their...
Remarkably enough, the nuclear building program has withstood the two great shocks of the atomic era. The 1979 near meltdown at Three Mile Island spawned new safety regulations. The catastrophe at Chernobyl in 1986 set off a public outcry in most of Western Europe, forcing some governments to curtail nuclear programs -- but not France. Five reactors will be added to the national grid in this decade. The Superphenix fast-breeder reactor, a joint venture with Italy and Germany, is working, though it has been dogged by technical problems and will never recover its $4.5 billion development cost...
...first real President, the Baltic republics were going about their own democratic business. In Estonia, four anticommunist parties pushed for legislation to break up collective farms and convert them into private plots. In Latvia, parliamentarians vigorously debated emergency health care for local soldiers who helped clean up the Chernobyl disaster five years ago. In Lithuania, the Supreme Council passed a new social-welfare bill that will require raising taxes...