Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...true that until today there existed the theoretical possibility of a catastrophe--a large portion of the (nuclear) fuel and reactor graphite was burning," the official news agency Tass quoted Yevgeny Velikhov as saying...
Velikhov, the vice president of the Soviet Academy of Scientists and a director of the Chernobyl cleanup, said soil was being frozen and cement was being poured with the goal of sealing off the damaged reactor. Officials will decide afterward whether to reactivate the power plant, he was quoted as saying...
Although the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Italy and West Germany failed to come to grips with the divisive and volatile issue of farm export subsidies, they did agree to a host of other initiatives, including coordinated efforts to improve nuclear safety in the wake of the Chernobyl reactor accident in the Soviet Union...
...source who had assessed intelligence reportssaid of the Soviet reactor site: "These aredefinitely power plants and not production centersfor nuclear warheads. But these are huge plantsthat provide a major link in their electricalgrid. There are four of them in a line at thiscomplex, and none of them are operating...