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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...
...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...
...other by Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich. They presented their findings at the two-day Conference on the Longterm, Worldwide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War. It was attended by some 600 American and foreign scientists and environmentalists and addressed by satellite by four Soviet counterparts in Moscow. Among them: Evgeni Velikhov, vice president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The Soviets said they had independently come to roughly the same conclusions as the Sagan-Ehrlich teams...
...small way: Soviet officials distributed 20,000 copies of the first issue of In the World of Science, a Russian-language version of Scientific American (worldwide circ. 1 million in eight languages) that is being produced under a licensing agreement with Mir, a Moscow publishing house. Said Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in an introductory editorial: "This publication in the U.S.S.R. acquires special significance at this time of limited international co operation...