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Nuclear
3. Today. This photograph of the sarcophagus
covering the damaged Reactor No. 4 was taken
on February 24, 2011. Belarus, Ukraine, and
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the nuclear
reactor explosion in Chernobyl, the place
where the world's worst civil nuclear accident
took place, on April 26. Courtesy: Reuters
Soviet man. But by April 1986, the foundation
of Soviet communism had already begun
to crack. Gorbachev had contributed
with his policy of " glasnost " or openness,
implemented before Chernobyl as an antidote
to rampant corruption. Among the fruits
of glasnost was an invigorated Russian press
that began highlighting the major problems
of the Soviet Union, including alcoholism,
malingering, food shortages, and environmental
destruction.
The events of late April 1986 and their afogy
" had become a panacea for the great
economic, social and political challenges
facing the nation as it embarked of the path
of modernization. Many peasants and workers
embraced the new technology, naming
their sons 'Tractor' (Traktor) their daughters
'Electrification' (Elektrifikatsiia) or 'Forge'
(Domna). "
Chernobyl dashed that technology worship
and the concept of the perfectibility of
termath administered a stern test to glasnost.
At first, the Soviets retreated to form, dissembling
and covering up events in Ukraine. But
soon, probably under Gorbachev's orders, the
Soviet government came clean about the accident.
By September, the USSR delivered a
full report on the accident to the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna,
acknowledging terrible errors in operating
the plant. Time magazine described the Soviet
accident report as " one of the more startling
examples of a new Soviet openness. "
In a Chernobyl 20th anniversary assessment,
the IAEA commented, " Under heavy
pressure from the West to provide open information
on the accident, Gorbachev imposed
full glasnost, thereby annihilating one of the
strongest pillars of the Soviet regime. That
regime fell apart soon after. Chernobyl was
a major catalyst in triggering the chain reaction
of events that would soon lead to the disintegration
of the Soviet Union. " (For more
on the event and its aftermath, see the multimedia
page assembled by the IAEA at www.
iaea.org/newscenter/focus/chernobyl/.)
A New Perspective
Now, 25 years later, what is one to make of
the bitterness of Chernobyl and what it begat?
The IAEA's conclusion of 2006 remains
valid. The agency observed that " the public
seems to have gradually changed its perception
of nuclear energy, against the backdrop
of what is often referred to as 'the nuclear
renaissance'. This could be seen as evidence
of the maturity of nuclear technology, of the
adequacy of the safety culture, of effective
regulations etc... . But it may also be proof of
loss of memory. "
The IAEA also cautioned, " One single
major accident in a power plant could-in a
matter of minutes-ruin twenty years of considerable
effort. " ■
-Kennedy Maize is a POWER contributing
editor and executive editor of
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