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ECO NEWSLETTER by MARTHA T. PELENSKY, PE UNWLA Ecology/Environment Chair April 26th marks the fourteenth anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. There has been so much written and said about it that hardly anything new can (or should) be added. Yet it is important to note yet another, if not well known, statistic: the radiation released at Chornobyl was about one hundred times that of the first atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima. If anything else can be learned from a debacle of such apocalyptic propor tions, it is that such can be the fate of a nation ruled by self-seeking, self-protecting and incompetent outsider bu reaucracy. In my efforts to find and share some interesting facts about ecology and environment, both in the United States and in Ukraine, I found a website dedicated to environmental matters in Ukraine. The site address is http://proeco.visti.net/. While exploring the site, I found an item that should be of interest to all of us. On February 21, 1979, Iurij Andropov, then Chairman of the KGB, wrote a memo. Marked SECRET, the memo was entitled "Construction Flaws at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant". A photocopy of the original memo in Russian, together with an English translation of the full text, is shown below. “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 2000 11
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