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Article: SOVIET A-PLANT DISASTER // Heavy toll feared
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 29, 1986
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MOSCOW A nuclear accident damaged a reactor at the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, the Soviet Union reported
yesterday. Western diplomats feared a high death toll at the site of
the accident, which sent a radioactive cloud over parts of
Scandi-navia more than 1,000 miles away.
It was impossible to assess the number of people killed or
injured in the accident at the restricted Chernobyl power plant,
about 80 miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, the nation's
third most populous city with 2.3 million people, in the western
Soviet Union.
The official Soviet news agency Tass, in an unprecedented ...