Word: chernobyls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thick with the smoke from burning oil wells and a wide swath of crude petroleum is fouling the water and devastating wildlife? If these disasters brought to mind the Exxon Valdez, the news of air attacks on nuclear- and chemical-weapons facilities raised the specter of Chernobyl and Bhopal. The environment itself has become both a weapon and a victim...
...allied air attacks on Iraq's two nuclear reactors at Tuwaitha. Both are small research facilities, with modest amounts of nuclear material at their cores. The smaller of the two is a pint-size reactor of less than a megawatt. The larger puts out just five megawatts of power. Chernobyl was roughly a thousand times as powerful...
...prize is worth about $710,000, or about eight times Gorbachev's annual salary. It is a sum that would see any Soviet citizen through a lifetime of shortages, but the President plans to donate the money to charity. One likely recipient: a fund for young victims of the Chernobyl disaster...
Second, it was during the 1980s that mankind for the first time seriously began to think in ecological terms. The need for radically reassessing the relationship between mankind and the planet was made manifest by Chernobyl, acid rain, ozone-layer depletion, the greenhouse effect, vanishing forests and freshwater shortages. The ecological movement is now on the rise. Government policies are beginning to change. International ecological cooperation has begun. Yet it will take a tremendous effort to overcome the inertia of mindless devastation of the environment, or even restrain the inertia generated by the industrial...
...over Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany on an otherwise clear day, one can see whole valleys enveloped in a heavy blue haze from the belching smokestacks that disfigure the landscape. Littered across the East bloc, obsolete and unsafe nuclear reactors are decaying, each threatening a reprise of the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The Danube River and Baltic Sea are deadly sumps. Many lakes and streams are fishless, forests are dying, and blackened cities are decorated with pollution-eroded sculpture...