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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...
Tass for the first time issued close-up photos of the damaged reactor. The black-and-white pictures, apparently taken from a helicopter, showed the upper part of the reactor building blown off and piles of rubble lying at its base. Nearby buildings appeared undamaged...
Despite widespread concern about terrorism, as well as the recent nuclear reactor accident in the Ukraine, Coleman said that none of the participants had discussed canceling the trip...
...Washington, a collection of consumer, environmental and scientific groups known as the Coalition of Environmental/Safe Energy Organizations called for a complete phaseout of nuclear power plants in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, protesters in Lancaster and Dauphin counties vowed to increase efforts to prevent the reopening of the reactor at Three Mile Island that was not involved in the 1979 accident there. In New Hampshire and on New York's Long Island, antinuclear forces stepped up their campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident...
...Three Mile Island melted down the credibility of pronuclear organizations, the industry was in trouble. Caught between climbing construction costs, high interest rates and unexpectedly slow growth in the demand for electricity, American utilities stopped ordering new nuclear plants in 1978. After the accident at Three Mile Island, some reactor salesmen tossed away their order books entirely...