April 27th, 1986 Notice from the Operative Plenipotentiary of the 2nd Division of the 6th Administration of the Ukr. When I began to read the secret documents, I saw that the deception around the catastrophe turned out to be just as vast as the catastrophe itself. It is known that from the very beginning of everything, the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) was completely classified, and the communist regime repeated its deceitful mantra: Nothing threatens peoples health. (I write about this in detail in my nonfiction books.) Yet in response to these accidents more calls for stringent international nuclear safety measures entered public narratives of nuclear power. The President of Russia Boris Yeltsin had already banned the CPSU, and some members of its politburo were contemplating life in KGB cells. Among those measures are assignments to accurately measure radiation, evacuate citizens from Pripyat, and deploy chemical troops and other emergency management services. (HDA SBU, Fond 16, Sprava 1097). 9, Sprava 34). The Politburo is aware that the failures in addressing the accident will serve as judgment on the vitality of the system. 7. Allow the re-evacuation (return) of children and pregnant women to all residential areas where the combined calculated dose will not exceed 10 rem for the first year (237 residential areas in total), and there where the calculated doses of radiation exposure (without the restriction of the consumption of contaminated foods) surpasses 10 rem,from October 1, 1986(174 residential areas) Israel, Burenkov, Aleksandrov. This is despite the fact that a month earlier the head of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology Yuri Israel reported: Areas with radiation levels higher than 5 mR/hr () are recognized as dangerous for people to live in. In a memo from NSC staffer Jack Matlock to National Security Advisor John Poindexter, Matlock outlines what he calls the Soviet public propaganda campaign on arms control, and Gorbachevs seeming preference for public proposals over private negotiations with Reagan (reference to his January plan for elimination of nuclear weapons), and the Soviet handling of Chernobyl. Smaller amounts of radioactive material were detected over Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia and even the United States. Tracking Chernobyl's effects on wildlife Evolutionary ecologist Germn Orizaola Pereda analyses how species have been affected, 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident. In the Cold War era, as the world waited anxiously for a potential nuclear war, the Chernobyl disaster confirmed for many that the nuclear energy industry posed significant threats along with nuclear weapons. () Secretary of the CC CPSU M.S. (HDA SBU, Fond. In fact, the number of people on the night shift was minimal and actual fatalities did total two on the first day of the accident. Primary SourceExcerpt. Secret. In areas with radiation levels of less than 5 mR/hr it is critical to introduce strict control for radioactive food, especially milk., It is interesting to compare with the secret Report of the head of the Chemical Corps of the Ministry Defense of the USSR V. Pikalov at a meeting of the CC CPSU on June 15, 1987.: in the red forest, because of the turn-down and the conservation of the forest, the radiation levels are lowered from 5 Roentgen/hr to 7.5 mR/hr, which surpasses admissible values by 15 times. Red was the name of the forest close to the NPP, which had been killed by a nuclear blast. These excerpts provide a practically verbatim account of the first discussion of the Chernobyl accident by the full Politburo. Read more, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NWWashington, DC 20004-3027, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project. Soviet authorities made the decision not to cancel May 1, May Day, outdoor parades in the region four days later.The graphite fire continued to burn for nearly two weeks carrying radioactivity high into the atmosphere, until it was smothered by sand, lead, dolomite, and boron dropped from helicopters.
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