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...upsurge in support for nuclear power following a decade of rejection. As the world worries about global warming and acid rain, even some environmentalists are looking a bit more kindly on the largest power source that doesn't worsen either problem: nuclear. New reactor designs would make accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island impossible, or so the engineers say, and while much of the public is skeptical, some scientists are persuaded...
...chilling view of what really happened five years ago at Chernobyl...
...people of Pripyat had no way of knowing that their small Ukrainian town was dying that morning as they gazed at the ruddy glow over Chernobyl reactor No. 4 some 2 1/2 miles away. It was a bright spring Saturday, April 26, 1986. A townsman came in from sunning himself on a roof, exclaiming that he had never seen anything like it, he had turned brown in no time at all. He had what would later be known as a nuclear tan. A few hours afterward, the man was taken away in an ambulance, convulsed with uncontrollable vomiting. Soon many...
...full story of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath may never be known. Soviet officials have managed to keep most of the details secret. But in The Truth About Chernobyl, nuclear physicist and former Chernobyl chief engineer Grigori Medvedev gives a searing account of the accident. His book, published in the Soviet Union two years ago, will be released in English this week by Basic Books to coincide with the disaster's fifth anniversary...
Medvedev, who helped investigate the disaster, interviewed dozens of plant officials and workers, many of whom later died of radiation poisoning. One sobering conclusion: it could easily happen again (the Soviet Union has 16 other reactors of the Chernobyl design). And in the U.S.? Because America has no such reactors, and because the accident resulted from a breathtaking level of ineptitude, ignorance and criminal negligence, Americans have little reason to fear a similar occurrence...