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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.
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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.
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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 Pattison, 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.
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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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