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...taken a macabre turn: vacation trips to the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl. Kievturist, a Ukrainian tour operator, is organizing excursions to the forbidden zone surrounding the entombed remains of the world's worst nuclear accident. Truly adventurous visitors can tour the massive concrete mound where the wreckage of the reactor is buried, a town built for the workers who cleaned up after the accident and a nuclear-waste dump...
...antitank and antiaircraft missiles. The camouflage nets and plastic decoys being used by Iraq to fool allied flyers were also sold by French companies. "You send them a check, and they'll sell you anything," an American pilot fumed last week. More worrisome, France sold Iraq the Osirak nuclear reactor that was bombed by Israel in 1981. After that attack, which heightened concerns that Iraq might be pursuing a nuclear-weapons capability, Paris shied away from nuclear- related sales to Baghdad. Though Iraq fell $5 billion behind in its payments, French firms continued selling equipment to Saddam until early...
NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION. There have been no signs so far of radioactive contamination resulting from allied air attacks on Iraq's two nuclear reactors at Tuwaitha. Both are small research facilities, with modest amounts of nuclear material at their cores. The smaller of the two is a pint-size reactor of less than a megawatt. The larger puts out just five megawatts of power. Chernobyl was roughly a thousand times as powerful...
Even a runt reactor can contaminate the nearby area if its radioactive core is fractured, in which case some radioactive particles could remain in the soil for decades. But the prospect that a radioactive cloud will spread across the region is universally discounted. "You would need a direct hit to splatter the stuff around," says Thomas B. Cochran of the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "And then it would be only a local hazard...
...Hampshire, Home to More Than New England's Only Nuclear Reactor: While the Crimson is undoubtedly looking forward to hosting New Hampshire on January 29th, no one is probably happier about the 1-12 Wildcats visit to Cambridge than the Wildcats...