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...true that until today there existed the theoretical possibility of a catastrophe--a large portion of the (nuclear) fuel and reactor graphite was burning," the official news agency Tass quoted Yevgeny Velikhov as saying...
Velikhov said workers were trying to protect ground water from radioactive contamination. "A new phase of work has begun," Tass quoted him as saying. "Work is being done to decontaminate and encapsulate the radioactive material. This will ensure it won't fall into the ground water...
...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...
...Pentagon, spokesman Robert Sims said theUnited States had not learned of the accident inadvance of Monday's announcement by the Sovietpress agency Tass...
...test in Nevada last week after a two-day delay that had been caused by bad weather. The Soviet Union, which had adopted a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing last August, denounced the U.S. action and said that the U.S.S.R. too would resume testing. The Soviet news agency TASS described the U.S. test, which was code-named Mighty Oak, as a "dangerous destabilizing step" and an indication that the Reagan Administration "is still chasing the will-o'-the- wisp of military superiority...