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...origins of last week's accident, Western experts in Moscow and elsewhere were gradually piecing together the probable sequence of events that led to disaster (see diagram). The trouble seems to have begun Saturday, April 26, when a mishap caused a loss of the water that continuously cools the uranium fuel rods in the reactor's core. With the coolant gone, superheated steam could have triggered ) a series of irreversible reactions leading to a meltdown of the fuel and a blast that ripped through the roof of the building that housed Unit...
...Accidental removal of four control rods at an experimental nuclear power reactor at Chalk River, Canada, near Ottawa, led to a partial meltdown of the reactor's uranium fuel core. A million gallons of radioactive water accumulated inside, but there were no accident-related injuries. Although negligible in comparison with last week's Soviet accident, it was the first known major malfunction of a nuclear power plant...
...worker at the Kerr-McGee Corp. uranium-processing plant in Gore, Okla., died from exposure to a caustic chemical that formed when an improperly heated, overfilled container of nuclear material burst. Some radiation flowed out of the plant, sending more than 100 people to local hospitals...
...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. The leaders of the West...
...cheaper for a little country with a lot of cash to steal some uranium than to build a plant to make it," O'Connor said...