Word: chernobyls
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma promised today that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant would be closed by 2000. Representatives from the 15-nation European Union and G-7 countries visiting Kiev called the decision "a radical change in Ukrainian policy" given the former Soviet country's grave economic difficulties. Previously, Kiev had refused to consider closing the plant, most of which has been enclosed in an unstable, radioactive sarcophagus since the 1986 disaster...
...Streisand Foundation, set up in the wake ofthe 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has donatedover $8 million to a variety of liberal causes,including AIDS research, environmental protectionand gay rights activism...
...lunch with the Overseas Press Club later, Zhirinovsky added a kicker: an allegation that the1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster was an act of sabotage by certain KGB agents intent on destroying confidence in Soviet technology.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...like to, might begin to look seriously at what is on offer in the new marketplace. "There is already far more bomb-quality nuclear material in Germany than the authorities can imagine," said Russian atomic expert Vladimir Chernosenko, who was one of the officials charged with cleaning up the Chernobyl nuclear accident. "If economic conditions in Russia do not improve soon, there will be an outflow organized from the highest echelons...
...about them while cultivating a Russia that they still deeply distrust. At the Naples summit, Clinton and his G-7 colleagues agreed on the outlines of a new multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine. The seven countries would help pay for decommissioning the four nuclear reactors at the infamous Chernobyl site and completing three new nuclear power plants that would generate much more electricity. Additional billions would be extended on the condition that Kiev undertake some major economic reforms. In the view of U.S. officials, Ukraine, a nation of 52 million, could become either a new sick man of Europe...