Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names that may soon become widely known: Plant Director Viktor Bryukhanov, Chief Engineer N. Fomin and a deputy chief engineer identified only as Dyatlov. The names were virtually unaccompanied by biography except for the charge against them: "criminal negligence" in connection with the explosion last year that ripped apart Reactor No. 4 near the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl. Maximum penalty: 15 years in jail...
...bright, goof-off airman who develops the same parental bond for Virgil that Teri had. Soon Teri, the Mary Beth Whitehead of primate research, is off to Florida to steal back her chimp-child. The ensuing custody battle will involve Jimmy, the Air Force brass and a balky nuclear reactor...
Yesterday was the anniversary of the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire that engulfed a reactor at Chernobyl poer plant in the Soviet Ukraine, releasing a cloud of radiation that traveled around the world. Soviet authorities did not publicize the accident for three days. Later they said that it killed 31 people and injured hundreds...
...August is the best time of year," said Oleg Kievsky, 50, an engineer at the Bilibino nuclear power station, the most northerly power reactor in the world. "The frosts of August kill the mosquitoes, but the weather is still beautiful. Everybody goes out camping, and we spend our days picking berries or mushrooms for the winter...
...rulers came through clearly. It was certain that when John Paul departed Chile, he would leave behind a country subtly different from the one he arrived in only days before. As a member of the Vatican entourage explained, "The Pope's visits are like putting fuel in a nuclear reactor. Things happen...