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...denounced the West for producing a "mountain of lies" about the accident. But soon glasnost was back; officials and the press began providing information on the accident to a degree unprecedented for Soviet journalism. Criticism diminished, and near the end of the year the radioactive wreck of the Chernobyl reactor was finally sealed in concrete...
Richard Vollmer, NRC deputy director for nuclear reactor regulation, defended the agency against charges that the utility swayed it to grant a license at the expense of public safety...
...resulting story appeared in London's Sunday Times under the banner headline REVEALED: THE SECRETS OF ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL. The account told how an Israeli research team, starting in 1964 with a 26-megawatt nuclear reactor supplied by France, secretly upgraded it to 150 megawatts, large enough to produce plutonium for ten nuclear bombs a year. In the process, said the article, they turned Israel into the world's sixth largest nuclear power, after the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China...
...result, firemen and police didn't have the protective clothing and equipment they needed when an April 26 explosion tore open the plant's No. 4 reactor, he said...
Press coverage has generally followed a tone set by the ruling Politburo, which blamed criminal negligence by local and national officials, not any design flaw in the reactor, for the explosion...