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Article: Soviets given new Chernobyl details
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 8, 1987
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MOSCOW (AP) A Soviet writer has provided new details of the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster based on first-person accounts describing
radiation sickness and the delay in evacuating a nearby town.
The first part of Yuri Shcherbak's report was printed in the
latest edition of the monthly Yunost, which the Associated Press
obtained over the weekend.
Shcherbak interviewed doctors, Chernobyl workers, firefighters
and other residents of the nearby town of Pripyat.
An explosion and fire wrecked the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl
power plant April 26, 1986, about 80 miles north of Kiev in the
Ukraine. It killed at least 31 people, sickened more than 200 and
released a cloud of radiation that ...