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...surface, relations among the nearly 600 delegates to last week's symposium on the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were cordial, detached and scientific. After all, the Soviets had agreed to the extraordinary 62-nation conference, sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a spirit of international cooperation. Said Chief Soviet Delegate Valeri Legasov: "All our experts understood that the events that happened (at Chernobyl) concerned not just the Soviet Union but the whole world...
...conferees were unable to agree on even so basic a question as how many human lives the Chernobyl accident may claim. Morris Rosen, director of nuclear safety for IAEA, and Dan Beninson, chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, initially predicted that radiation from the disaster would cause as many as 24,000 cancer deaths over the next 70 years. They later reduced their estimate by more than half after further studying the Soviet data. The revision stirred charges that the scientists were bowing to the nuclear power industry. Thomas Cochran, senior scientist at the New York City-based...
...language was thick and bureaucratic, but there it was in black and white. In an official report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Soviet Union admitted that the men and women operating the Chernobyl atomic- power power plant were responsible for the worst nuclear-reactor accident in history. Said Andronik M. Petrosyants, chairman of the Soviet Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy: "The accident took place as a result of a whole series of gross violations of operating regulations by the workers...
...report delivered to the IAEA and outlined at a Soviet press conference in Moscow last week, was one of the more startling examples of a new Soviet openness. Not only does the two-volume, 430- page document assign guilt for the catastrophe but it includes page after page of statistics, charts and drawings explaining the design and operation of Soviet nuclear reactors. The report will serve as a working paper at an IAEA meeting this week to discuss the international implications of the Chernobyl disaster. About 80 nations were slated to send delegations. Participants are expected to approve...
Hans Blix, IAEA director general, also said Chernobyl would lead to better international cooperation, guaranteeing high safety standards...