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MOSCOW--A leading physicist in the cleanup of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor was quoted yesterday as saying a turning point had been reached and that it was no longer possible that the situation could worsen...
...addition to employing old technology, Soviet engineers and scientists have tended to show much less concern for safety than their Western counterparts. Says Physicist Robert Sachs, director of the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago and a strong nuclear power proponent: "Those of us who know something about Soviet safety policy have wondered how they have gotten away without a big accident for as long as they have." The lack of a containment structure for the Chernobyl reactor, which might have limited the emission of radioactivity into the atmosphere after the explosion, is only the most glaring example...
...John J. Moakley, D-Mass., delivered the keynote address, and physicist Se Hee Ahn, president of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, received an honorary degree...
...rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post with one handicap: he has accused the Rogers commission of being engaged in a "witch-hunt...
Early evaluation of data from Vega 1 showed that the craft encountered less dust than expected as it approached the comet. But Physicist John Simpson of the University of Chicago, who designed the only American instrument -- a dust detector -- aboard Vega, noted that as the spacecraft departed, it passed through a "huge spike of dust" with particles about the size of those in cigarette smoke. Simpson and other scientists interpreted the spike as a burst of dust and gas erupting from the surface of the nucleus. Other Vega instruments seemed to show that the icy cometary surface was being evaporated...