Silent Nightmare
Beginning of paper
On the night of April 25,1986, what was later described by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D,Ver.), as "by far the worst nuclear reactor accident known to mankind... beyond even the worst nightmares of nuclear scientists," occurred in the Soviet Union.
At first, the Soviets said nothing about it.
Only ....
Middle of paper
.... that "at least 27 cities and villages near the Chernobyl nuclear plant are too contaminated by radioactivity to be resettled in the foreseeable future; and that "the radiation released stretched world wide (1). We also know that the explosion and fire tore apart one of the reactors and that "31 people died" (2). However this figure conflicts with the April 29,1986 United Press International "unconfirmed" report that over 2000 people were killed by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion ....
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