Word: materiallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Velikhov said workers were trying to protect ground water from radioactive contamination. "A new phase of work has begun," Tass quoted him as saying. "Work is being done to decontaminate and encapsulate the radioactive material. This will ensure it won't fall into the ground water."
The secret calamity first began to come into the spotlight in 1976, with the appearance of an article by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet biologist now living in London. In it, he claimed that the Soviets had carelessly stored radioactive wastes in shallow burial facilities. As the debris accumulated, he...
While Soviet pronouncements sought to minimize the extent of the damage, information gathered from satellite photos suggested a hellish scene at the accident site. All evidence pointed to a nuclear reactor fire burning out of control in the gentle, rolling Ukrainian countryside and steadily releasing radiation into the air. That...
Oct. 7, 1957. Like the Chernobyl facility, the Windscale Pile No. 1 plutonium-production plant north of Liverpool, England, used graphite to slow down neutrons emitted during nuclear fission. When workers discovered a fire in the reactor, they sprayed it with carbon dioxide but failed to quench the blaze. By...
Does this mean that scholars are thus prevented from being patriots and from taking part in the fight against "communist states and international terrorism"? Obviously not. They can engage in a consulting relation with the CIA or other government agencies--as long as it is not clandestine. They can even...