Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ballet, a leading British dance company, to vote unanimously to cancel a spring tour of the Soviet Union. The three-week visit would have been the first by a British dance troupe in 25 years. A government unit that monitors radiation reported that "it is perfectly safe to drink milk or tap water, and there is no need to take iodine tablets." Still, whiskymakers in Scotland fretted that concerns about radioactive water could damage sales. Said Alan Rutherford, a water-research officer for Scottish malt distillers: "We take water from lochs and streams and reservoirs as well as springs...
JAPAN. Despite assurances that winds would carry the radiation past them, the Japanese found fallout last week throughout their country. Slight amounts were detected in sources ranging from Tokyo rainwater to fresh milk. Though the government advised people that no danger existed, demand for powdered milk soared, and some stores ran out of it. "We are not going to drink milk as long as it is contaminated," said one frightened homemaker. Yet most Japanese showed little concern. "There is no sense of a growing crisis here," said Noriaki Hosokawa, 32, a Tokyo importer of windsurfing equipment. "Not a single friend...
...radiation, and tens of thousands may have been evacuated from the endangered region. Meanwhile, radioactive gases and particles have spread over a vast section of the Soviet breadbasket in the Ukraine, and water supplies for the more than 6 million inhabitants of the Kiev area are threatened with contamination. Milk from local cows will probably be tainted for months to come...
...absence of detailed information, Europeans and their governments took frantic steps. Polish authorities banned the sale of milk from cows fed on fresh grass and said children from birth to age 16 would receive iodine solutions to keep their bodies from absorbing the element in radioactive form. That created lines of up to 100 customers at Warsaw drugstores, while special all-night pharmacies had block-long queues even at 4 a.m. Washington advised women of childbearing age and all children against traveling to Poland because of potential health risks. Rumania, declaring a state of alert in all parts...
...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 the time the fire was put out with water, radioactive material had contaminated 200 sq. mi. of countryside. Officials banned the sale of milk from cows grazing in the area for more than a month. The government estimated that at least 33 cancer deaths could be traced to the effects of the accident...