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...years after Reactor No. 4 spewed fatal clouds of radiation from the Chernobyl power station, the Soviet public was jolted last week by another blast. The Communist Party daily Pravda charged that sloppy workmanship, mismanagement and lax safety standards -- the very conditions blamed for causing the accident that claimed 31 lives -- continue to plague the Chernobyl complex. Fumed the newspaper: "It is as though there hasn't been an accident...
Pravda's vitriol was aimed at Kombinat, the organization that oversees cleanup and safety maintenance at Chernobyl. Workers were scolded for drunkenness, thievery and inadequate discipline, while Kombinat officials were criticized for nepotism and negligence. The newspaper said that Kombinat Director Yevgeni Ignatenko had been reprimanded and had left his post...
Academic Dean Albert Carnesale said Dukakis asked him for his views on the implications of the Chernobyl accident and their bearing on the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. And Leonard directed Dukakis' task force on assisting families and students to deal with tuition increases, while Reich has advised on economic policy...
...missiles have flown, the earth's depopulated land masses are glowing like one big Chernobyl, and the 305 hands aboard the U.S.S. Nathan James, a destroyer that has survived the holocaust, find themselves alone in the vasty deep. But wait. Lurking beneath the waves is a Soviet nuclear submarine that has also escaped harm. Will the two vessels 1) blast each other with their remaining missiles, 2) join forces to begin civilization anew or 3) spend 600- odd pages stalking each other while they try to decide...
...aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Kremlin insisted it would not back away from its ambitious plan to quintuple nuclear power output by the year 2000. But officials underestimated the fears created by the accident. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Party youth newspaper, disclosed last week that the government had made an unprecedented decision to scrap construction of an atomic power plant in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar (cost so far: $43 million) simply because residents were adamantly against it. Krasnodar is not alone. The article said residents of some two dozen localities are "fiercely" protesting atomic energy stations...