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Nearly three years after the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev made his first visit to Chernobyl last week. The Soviet leader seemed intent on cleaning up the continuing environmental and political fallout from the accident. Soviet newspapers in recent weeks have reported the births of deformed farm animals and widespread radioactive contamination of land and food. Local workers surrounded Gorbachev to tell him of their worry about the health consequences...
Sonbert's most serious work, The Cup and the Lip (1986) focuses on the forces behind demonstrations and mass gatherings in the modern world. The film opens with a scene from a military parade in Budapest during the Chernobyl disaster and ends with Sandra Day O'Connor's visit to a San Francisco rally the week after the Supreme Court ruled on the sodomy...
...politicians and the media didn't talk about it until last summer's heat wave. New York Times columnist James Reston has said that "the networks will only cover the environment when you get a picture of a forest that died." Will we need a disaster the size of Chernobyl to start thinking about nuclear satellites...
Nuclear power is more controversial; until recently the mere mention of it made environmentalists blanch. They had good reason, considering the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the problem of radioactive waste and the horror stories about U.S. weapons plants. But the greenhouse effect is forcing some antinuclear activists to rethink their position. "I was a strong opponent of the nuclear program in France," said Brice Lalonde, France's Environment Under Secretary and a former presidential candidate on the Ecologist Party ticket. "Now I am reassessing the whole thing." France gets more than 70% of its electricity from nuclear...
...been available for more than 20 years. It was largely ignored in favor of a technology -- the water-cooled reactor -- that had already been proved in nuclear submarines. But water-cooled reactors are particularly susceptible to the rapid loss of coolant, which led to the accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island...