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MOSCOW--A leading physicist in the cleanup of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor was quoted yesterday as saying a turning point had been reached and that it was no longer possible that the situation could worsen...
Velikhov, the vice president of the Soviet Academy of Scientists and a director of the Chernobyl cleanup, said soil was being frozen and cement was being poured with the goal of sealing off the damaged reactor. Officials will decide afterward whether to reactivate the power plant, he was quoted as saying...
...said experts had told the group that Yerevan was unlikely to be badly affected by fallout from Chernobyl. But as a precaution, she said, the delegates would not eat fruit or leafy vegetables during their trip...
While atomic-energy officials around the world were trying to escape the political fallout from the Chernobyl accident, some of their American colleagues were fearful that the tragedy could doom their industry for years, perhaps even decades, to come. The U.S. industry has long been in deep trouble, and now it has to prepare for new attacks on several fronts...
Although the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Italy and West Germany failed to come to grips with the divisive and volatile issue of farm export subsidies, they did agree to a host of other initiatives, including coordinated efforts to improve nuclear safety in the wake of the Chernobyl reactor accident in the Soviet Union...