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WASHINGTON--U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Chernobyl nuclear reactor complex in the Soviet Ukraine experienced a meltdown Saturday, was still billowing smoke yesterday and threatened another reactor at the same site...
Adelman said temperatures reached as high as 4000 degrees Centigrade (7232 degrees Fahrenheit) at the graphite-cooled reactor. He said the graphite is burning and will continue to burn "for a good number of days...
...early yesterday morning "smoke was still billowing from the site. The roof had been blown off, and large portions of the walls [of the reactor building] had caved in," the source said. "And it seemed at the time that [another] nuclear unit just above it might still be in some danger...
Reports reaching the State Department saidSoviet authorities were hampered in their effortsto put out the fire because of the intense heat.They were also concerned that dousing the firecould create more radioactivity than simplyletting the reactor burn, according to a sourcewho asked to remain anonymous...
...Little imagination is needed to understand the dangers to the world if terrorist regimes and groups were ever to acquire nuclear weapons. Libya's Colonel Gaddafi has for years tried to acquire nuclear weapons. He has pressed the Soviets to supply him with a plutonium-producing reactor. He has offered Pakistan cash and uranium in a nuclear trade. He has tried to buy nuclear weapons from China. At the very least, he is building the intellectual resources in Libya to help make weapons of his own. Libya's Tajura Nuclear Research Center offers use of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium...