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It does now seem like
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that sometime
in the last couple of days
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there's been perhaps
the worst accident
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in the short history
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of the world's nuclear
power industry.
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In Moscow,
Western diplomats have spent the day
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trying to get more information
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about the accident
with no success.
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A zone with a
19-mile radius around Chernobyl
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remains a poisoned
no man's land.
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Soviet television tonight
accused the western media
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of spreading
slanderous inventions
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about the Chernobyl accident.
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It's now
clear that the Soviet Union
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has suffered one of
the worst disasters
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in the history of nuclear power.
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Massive quantities of radiation
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have apparently been
released in an accident
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at the Chernobyl Power
Station in the Ukraine.
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The Soviet version is this,
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one of the atomic reactors
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at the Chernobyl
Atomic Power Plant
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in the city of Kyiv was damaged
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and there is
speculation in Moscow
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that people were injured
and may have died.
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The Soviets may
have been fairly quick
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to acknowledge the accident
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because evidence in the form
of mild and nuclear radiation
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have already reached
beyond the Soviet borders
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to Scandinavia.
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There are indications
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the accident could have happened
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several days ago.
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It would take that long
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for radiation to
drift to Scandinavia
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and to make the
political decision
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to announce it.
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You can be sure
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that the decision
to, to disclose
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was made at the
very highest level,
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undoubtedly by
Gorbachev himself.
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The Soviet press is paying
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signally little attention
to the disaster.
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Newspapers carry only
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the brief official announcement
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inconspicuously placed.
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People have noticed
the small paragraph
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but seemed unaware
of the potential dangers.
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People in
the cities, towns, and villages
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of the Ukraine
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just haven't been told
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what dangers they may face.
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On the eve of the Seven
Nation Summit in Tokyo
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both Mrs. Thatcher
and President Reagan
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have urged the Russians to
say more about Chernobyl.
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Meeting
with Italy's Premier Craxi,
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Mr. Reagan was demanding
answers from the Russians.
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Come forward and tell
everybody exactly what happened.
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You can hardly call this kind
of an accident an internal affair
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when other countries
are threatened
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with the fallout of ra...
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dangerous radioactivity.
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A report in this morning's
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Communist party
newspaper "Pravda"
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indicates that the fire
at the power station
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still may not have been put out
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ten days after it started.
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The newspaper says
there was an explosion
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followed by two
fires at the plant.
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The "Pravda" pays
tribute to the firemen whose efforts
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it says limited the scale of
the damage considerably.
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"Brave bold men" it calls them,
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fighting courageously,
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hardly able to breathe
for soot and smoke,
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their boots sticking
in the asphalt
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melted by the high temperatures.
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As an
American I'm very privileged
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to be able to represent
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in the Soviet Union the
concern of Americans.
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We have agreed
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to a joint Soviet-American
effort in this regard.
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Until the accident,
there were 50 nuclear reactors
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operating in the Soviet Union
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generating 11% of
that nation's electricity.
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Most of the larger Soviet plants
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differ in design
from US reactors.
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The major difference is
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most Soviet nuclear
plants do not have
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containment buildings,
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the thick concrete
dome structures
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Americans are used to
seeing built around US reactors.
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When the worst American
nuclear accident occurred
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at Three Mile Island,
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most leaking radiation
was kept inside
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the containment building.
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If as seems to be the case
there was no containment
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around the reactor
as is the general...
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Can we be
sure of that? What do you...
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I do not, I do not know.
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Do you think
there's a containment building?
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I don't think that there
is a containment building
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because the policy of
Soviet atomic constructors
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was that the reactor's
absolutely safe
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and so there is no need to
have this kind of precaution
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because it indicate
possibility of disaster
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which Russian
always con-considered,
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uh, absolutely impossible.
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So going to be clear about
this, you're, you're going
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as far as to say you think it
almost certain or just probable
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there was no protective
shield around this reactor
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which appears to
have melted down?
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No, I think that
there is no protection,
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protection shield
around this reactor's
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certainly the case,
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because the building
as such indicate
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that there is no shield.
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Walter Patterson, if that is so,
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what is the danger to life?
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Well, obviously if radioactivity
got as far as Scandinavia,
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how long, however
long it took to get there,
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a great deal must have
escaped close to the site.
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What has been remarkable
is how much the Soviet people
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in spite of all the evidence
still seem to be believing
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the fairy stories the
government is still telling them.
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It could be argued, Martin,
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that only the Soviet
Union could have kept a lid
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on what might have been
a situation of public panic,
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only a totalitarian state
could have got away with it.
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I'm not sure they
have got away with it.
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Sunday's outbreak of fighting
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is only the latest in
four months of violence
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in the tiny Caucasian
republic of Georgia.
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Spasms of
unrest in the Soviet Union
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were felt in the
southern republics
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of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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The rebellion
against Communist authority
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has now spread
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and there's almost certainly
more trouble to come.
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The decision to send in troops
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was taken by
President Gorbachev.
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