Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is now not the case," he was quoted as telling Soviet journalists in Kiev, 80 miles south of the plant...
...prevent the reopening of the reactor at Three Mile Island that was not involved in the 1979 accident there. In New Hampshire and on New York's Long Island, antinuclear forces stepped up their campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident at Chernobyl makes it clear," said Ellyn Weiss, general counsel of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Schentists. "Nuclear power is inherently dangerous." Maurice Barbash is a builder who heads a Long Island citizens' group opposed to Shoreham. Last week...
Thus began by far the gravest crisis in the troubled, 32-year history of commercial atomic power. A catastrophe had occurred over the weekend at the Chernobyl plant, 80 miles north of Kiev, where a reactor meltdown and explosion caused untold death and suffering and raised the prospect of long- term health and environmental damage on a far greater scale than anything yet unleashed by peaceful nuclear...
...have an air danger near Kiev and a waterdanger if the core should burn down to the water[table] line," Adelman said...
...State Department has urged Americantravelers to stay away from Kiev, 60 miles southof the accident site...