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...Boris Shcherbina, a deputy prime minister who directed the cleanup after the April, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, told Tass in Leninakan...
...carefully controlled 67-minute session at which Shcherbina spoke was the first formal briefing since the accident began. Officials conceded that while the accident occurred at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, some 36 hours passed before the evacuation of the 49,000 residents in the vicinity of Pripyat, the settlement that houses power station workers, their families and others. Shcherbina said that the accident probably started with a chemical explosion. He also revealed that two fire fighters died battling the blaze in Unit No. 4, and 18 of the 204 people hospitalized with radiation sickness since the accident were...
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