Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Natural Resources Defense Council, contended that the initial 24,000 figure was probably far too low. While the experts argued, workers labored to restore the land around Chernobyl. A newspaper in Soviet Estonia reported that military reservists from that Baltic republic were being forced to participate in the Chernobyl cleanup. The men were said to be working 14-hour days washing down buildings and trees and digging up contaminated topsoil. "They are like squirrels in a running wheel," wrote Journalist Tonis Avikson. He noted that the reservists staged work stoppages when their Chernobyl tour of duty was extended from...
...investigation of the accident is completed, but the cleanup effort at Chernobyl continues. In recent weeks it has been slowed to a crawl by a series of technical troubles. The biggest problem is to encase the reactor, which is still emitting dangerous radioactive particles, in a concrete tomb. The Soviets have run short of cement and have had to install a ventilation system to prevent heat buildup, which might cause new fires and explosions. The Communist Party daily Pravda has criticized the slowness of the effort, pointing out that three other nuclear reactors located on the site cannot resume operation...
...helped manage the U.S. approach to the acid-rain problem. And that approach, says Deaver, was designed solely to get the President through the Ottawa summit in harmony with the Canadians. Strange thing, he notes. Everybody seems to love the acid-rain proposal, a public-private cleanup over five years. "You'd think the conservationists would be marching for me," Deaver laughed. "I haven't seen them...
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...
...much of the new diplomatic offensive, has been particularly damaged. Gorbachev's goal of taking up the mantle of the recognized champion of a nuclear-free world has certainly been set back. Last Tuesday, when a Soviet diplomat was trying to elicit West German help with the accident cleanup while providing as little information as possible, a West German scientist finally lost his temper and shouted at him, "This is not some little game we are playing. You are now responsible for endangering life on our planet." The world will not soon forget that, nor how the Soviets reacted...