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It does now seem like that sometime
in the last couple of days

there's been perhaps the worst
accident in the short history

of the world's nuclear
power industry.

In Moscow, Western diplomats have
spent the day trying to get

more information about
the accident with no success.

A zone with a 19 mile
radius around Chernobyl remains

a poisoned no man's land.

Soviet television tonight
accused the western media

of spreading slanderous inventions
about the Chernobyl accident.

It's now clear that the Soviet Union
has suffered one of the worst

disasters in the history
of nuclear power.

Massive quantities of radiation have
apparently been released.

In an accident at the Chernobyl
Power Station in the Ukraine.

The Soviet version is this, one of
the atomic reactors

at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Plant
in the city of Kyiv was damaged

and there is speculation in Moscow
that people were injured

and may have died.

The Soviets may have been fairly
quick to acknowledge the accident

because evidence in the form of
mild and nuclear radiation.

Have already reached beyond
the Soviet borders to Scandinavia.

There are indications the accident
could have happened

several days ago,

it would take that long for
radiation to drift to Scandinavia.

And to make the political decision
to announce it.

You can be sure that the decision
to, to disclose was made at.

The very highest level,
undoubtedly by Gorbachev himself.

The Soviet press is paying
significantly little attention

to the disaster,
newspapers carry only.

The brief official announcement
inconspicuously placed.

People have noticed a small
paragraph but seemed unaware

of the potential dangers.

People in the cities,
towns and villages of the Ukraine

just haven't been told
what dangers they may face.

On the eve of the 7 Nation Summit in
Tokyo both Mrs Thatcher and.

President Reagan have urged the
Russians to say more about Chernobyl.

Meeting with Italy's Premier Craxi
Mr Reagan was demanding answers

from the Russians.

Come forward and tell everybody
exactly what happened.

You can hardly call this kind of
an accident internal affair

when other countries are threatened
with the fall out of ra-

dangerous radioactivity.

A report in this morning's
community party newspaper Pravda

indicates that the fire at the power
station still may not have been

put out 10 days after it started.

The newspaper says there was
an explosion followed by two fires.

At the plant.

The Pravda pays tribute to
the firemen whose efforts it says

limited the scale of
the damage considerably.

Brave bold men it calls them,
fighting courageously, hardly

able to breath for soot and smoke,
their boots sticking in the asphalt

melted by the high temperatures.

As an American I'm very privileged
to be able to represent.

In the Soviet Union
the concern of Americans.

We have agreed to a joint Soviet
American effort in this regard.

Until the accident there were 50
nuclear reactors operating in.

The Soviet Union generating 11% of
that nations electricity.

Most of the larger Soviet plants
differ in design to US reactors,

the major difference is most Soviet
nuclear plants do not have

containment buildings,
the thick concrete dome structures

Americans are used to
seeing built around US reactors.

When the worst American nuclear
accident occurred at.

Three Mile Island most leaking
radiation was kept inside

the containment building.

If as seems to be the case
there was no containment

around the reactor as is
the general-

Can we be sure of that? What do you-
I do not, I do not know.

Do you think there's
a containment building?

I don't think that there is a
containment building because

the policy of Soviet atomic er,
constructors was that

the reactor's absolutely safe and so
there is no need to have

this kind of precaution because it
indicate possibility of disaster.

Which Russian always can, considered
er, absolutely impossible.

So going to be clear about this,
you're, you're going as far

as to say you think it almost
certain or just probable

there was no protective shield
around this reactor

which appears to have melted down?

No I think that there is no
protection, protection shield

around this reactor's certainly
the case because the building

as such indicate
that there is no shield.

Walter Patti son, if that is so
what is the danger to life?

Well obviously if radioactivity got
as far as Scandinavia how long,

however long it took to get there,
a great deal must have escaped

close to the site.

What has been remarkable is how much
the Soviet people

in spite of all the evidence
still seem to be believing.

The fairy stories the government is
still telling them.

It could be argued Martin that only
the Soviet Union could have

kept a lid on what might have been
a situation of public panic,

only a totalitarian state
could have got away with it.

I'm not sure they have
got away with it.

The Russians say the Chernobyl
accident was caused by no fewer

than 6 violations of safety
procedures by staff,

that they say won't happen again.

Sunday's outbreak of fighting is
only the latest in four months

of violence in the tiny
Caucasian republic of Georgia.

Spasms of unrest in the Soviet Union
were felt in the southern republics.

Of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The rebellion against communist
authority has now spread

and there's almost certainly more
trouble to come.

The decision to send in troops was
taken by President Gorbachev.

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