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...Robert P. Gale, a U.S. bone marrow specialist helping care for Chernobyl radiation victims in Moscow, arranged to go to Kiev yesterday to check on patients hospitalized there and discuss long-term medical care and case follow-ups. At least 299 people were hospitalized immediately after the accident. Kiev is 80 miles from the disaster site...
Domanyuk, party head in Prepay, the town adjoining the Chernobyl plant, said the government commission investigating the April 26 accident in the plant's No. 4 reactor wanted to get reactors No. 1 and No. 2 going in October. Speaking in an interview on the national television evening news, Domanyuk did not say when the No. 3 reactor might be operating again...
Domanyuk gave no indication that the estimated 25,000 residents of Prepay, who are among 92,000 people evacuated from an 18-mile zone around the Chernobyl plant, would be returning home when the two reactors start up in the fall...
Soviet scientist Valery Legasov yesterday said that lessons must be drawn from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, including the need for better skills in dealing with sophisticated technology...
Legasov said trouble-free operation of nuclear power plants depends on the qualifications and skills of work crews. His remarks seemed to imply some criticism of the Chernobyl staff...