[ RadSafe ] NRC Slaps FirstEnergy With Record Fine

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NRC Slaps FirstEnergy With Record Fine
Vigilance needed for nuclear power plant safety, says U.N. agency
Vt. Yankee Nuclear Plant Near Radiation Limit-Regulators
Nuke lost off Georgia coast found no `significant' radiation
Russian nuke plant officials accused of dumping
Reaction to nuclear plant sale differs from inception
FirstEnergy, one nuclear plant back, has another under spotlight
Last shipment of high-level radioactive waste leaves nuclear plant
Utah Landfill Rejects Soil From Maine Yankee Plant
Ship carrying nuclear waste reprocessed in France arrives in Japan
Chernobyl faces potentially dangerous power cut due to debt
Chernobyl survivors rally in Kiev to demand more compensation
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NRC Slaps FirstEnergy With Record Fine

TOLEDO, Ohio (April 22) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed 
a record $5.45 million fine against a nuclear plant operator where 
inspectors found the most extensive corrosion ever seen at a U.S. 
nuclear reactor.

The NRC said Thursday that FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. 
restarted the Davis-Besse plant in 2000 without completing a cleaning 
and inspection of the reactor vessel head, then misled the agency 
about what it had done.

Leaking boric acid was found two years later during a routine 
inspection. The acid ate nearly all the way through a 6-inch-thick 
steel cap.

"This substantial fine emphasizes the very high safety and regulatory 
significance of FirstEnergy's failure to comply with NRC 
requirements," said Luis Reyes, NRC executive director for 
operations.

The NRC also said it is banning one of the company's former engineers 
from working in the nuclear industry for five years. The agency said 
that Andrew Siemaszko was responsible for making sure the reactor 
vessel head was cleaned and inspected and that he deliberately 
provided false information.

The damage at the plant along the Lake Erie shore, 30 miles east of 
Toledo, ranks among the nation's worst nuclear problems since the 
accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979. It led to a 
review of 68 similar plants nationwide.

The Davis-Besse plant was closed for two years but returned to full 
power last April.

The fine more than doubles the previous record of $2.1 million handed 
down by the NRC in 1997 against the operators of the Millstone 
nuclear plant in Connecticut for safety violations.

FirstEnergy spokesman Richard Wilkins said the company had no 
immediate comment. The plant operator and Siemaszko have 90 days to 
appeal.

A federal grand jury is investigating whether the company provided 
false statements to the NRC, and the utility said in December that it 
probably would face charges.
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Vigilance needed for nuclear power plant safety, says U.N. agency

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Countries operating nuclear power plants must 
continue to work on safety, a U.N. official said Friday at the 
conclusion of a meeting of members of the Convention of Nuclear 
Safety.

Linda Keen, the president of the meeting that reviewed progress, said 
intense efforts were needed to avoid another accident such as the one 
that occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine. That accident eventually 
led to the creation of the convention, which entered into force in 
1996.

"All of us better remain absolutely vigilant," she said. "None of us 
can afford to have a failure. We will all pay."

The convention, signed by 65 countries, requires members to maintain 
a high level of safety in the operation and regulation of nuclear 
power plants. It does not carry any penalties to force members to 
adhere, instead obliging members to submit reports for peer review.

A report from the meeting is expected in a few weeks.

Convention members, who late last year agreed on a code of conduct 
for research reactors, agreed to ask the IAEA's director to call 
meetings on how to apply that code effectively, Keen told a news 
conference.

All of the world's 441 nuclear power plants are operating in 
countries where the convention is in force.

Ken Brockman, the director of the IAEA's division of nuclear 
installation safety, said agency experts had found that Iran is 
committed to safety in the construction of a nuclear power plant in 
Bushehr.
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Vt. Yankee Nuclear Plant Near Radiation Limit-Regulators

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)--State regulators say the Vermont Yankee nuclear 
power plant is close to its state radiation limit.

And that could put its plans to boost power production into question.

The Department of Public Service says the likelihood of a power 
reduction, rather than a power increase, is now greater than 
expected.

In a letter to the Public Service Board, the department says the 
issue doesn't yet rise to the level of reopening the power case.

The reactor's owner, Entergy Nuclear (ETR), the Department of Public 
Service and the Department of Health were working together to 
establish common protocols to measure the radiation that comes from 
the plant consistently.
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Tests for nuke lost off Georgia coast found no `significant' 
radiation  

SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) - Government testing for possible signs of a 
nuclear bomb lost off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia in 1958 
found no significant radiation, the Air Force said in a letter to a 
Georgia newspaper.

Last September, government scientists took radiation readings and 
soil samples in waters near Tybee Island after a retired Air Force 
pilot who has searched privately for the bomb reported finding 
possible radioactive clues.

The government has not released a final report, but a letter by Air 
Force Col. James DeFrank, written in response to a story by The 
Associated Press, said government tests did not match radiation 
levels reported by Derek Duke.

"Since the interagency team did not find the `significant' radiation 
levels Mr. Duke's team reported, the focus shifted to the arduous 
task of analyzing data to determine what the samples did contain," 
wrote DeFrank, the Air Force deputy director of public affairs.

The letter was sent April 4 to the editorial page of The Macon 
Telegraph, one of the newspapers that published the AP story. The 
newspaper did not publish the letter, but the Air Force provided the 
AP with a copy Tuesday.

The H-bomb was dumped at sea in 1958 by a damaged B-47 bomber during 
a training flight after the plane collided with a fighter jet. The 
Air Force says the Mark-15 bomb lacks the plutonium capsule needed to 
trigger an atomic blast. Still, it contains about 400 pounds (180 
kilograms) of conventional explosives and an undisclosed amount of 
uranium.

Duke said he was perplexed by the government's finding.

"There's no question in my mind that the day we reported those 
readings, they existed," he said.
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Russian nuke plant officials accused of dumping

MOSCOW, April 12 (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors accused officials at 
the country's oldest nuclear processing plant of dumping radioactive 
waste in a criminal case ecologists hope leads to its eventual 
closure, media reported on Tuesday.

The Mayak plant in the Urals has been the site of various accidents 
since it was opened in 1949, including a radioactive waste tank 
explosion in the 1950s.

Tens of thousands of Russians living near the facility have been 
treated for the effects of radiation exposure for years.

Yuri Zolotov, deputy prosecutor general in the Urals region, told NTV 
television that an investigation showed that liquid radioactive waste 
had continuously been dumped from Mayak into the Techa river, which 
eventually flows into Siberia's major Ob river and on to the Arctic 
Ocean.

Vremya Novostei daily newspaper quoted Zolotov as saying radiation in 
the area exceeded safe levels by more than 200 percent. A formal 
criminal investigation was launched on Monday.

A similar investigation in 2003 led to Mayak's shut-down, but the 
plant was later reopened.

Ecology groups have long urged the government to shut the plant and 
welcomed the latest criminal investigation.

"But the main question now is whether this case would be seen through 
to a conclusion, whether the guilty would be punished and the plant's 
licence withdrawn," Vladimir Slivyak of EcoDefence ecology group said 
in a statement.

"Otherwise it would be a waste of time."

Mayak is one of Russia's biggest plants where nuclear waste generated 
by atomic power plants is processed to extract plutonium and prepare 
it for storage.

Spent atomic fuel from a Russian-built nuclear plant in Iran -- a 
source of diplomatic friction between Moscow and Washington -- was 
also expected to be processed there.
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Reaction to nuclear plant sale differs from inception

PALO, Iowa (AP) - Plans to sell Iowa's nuclear power plant apparently 
aren't creating any major reactions.

Interstate Power and Light Co., a subsidiary of Madison, Wis.-based 
Alliant Energy Corp., owns 70 percent of the Duane Arnold Energy 
Center near Palo. The plant produces enough power to serve about 
432,000 homes.

Central Iowa Power Cooperative, of Marion, owns a 20 percent share 
and Corn Belt Power Cooperative, of Humboldt, owns 10 percent.

Alliant announced in January that it would auction the plant to a 
buyer will to seek a 20-year extension of its operating license, 
which expires in 2014.

Some neighbors are still mindful of a plant failure, but times - and 
worries - have changed.

Bob Lam remembers the day in 1974 when the plant began generating 
power. From his farm north of Springville, Lam could see the vapor 
plume rising from the plant 20 miles west.

"I can look out my window and see the evaporated water almost every 
day, and the first time I saw that, I thought it looked like a 
mushroom cloud," he said.

But Lam saw firsthand how interested the public has become in the 
plant last October. He was one of only two private citizens to speak 
at a Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting to evaluate a test of the 
readiness of the plant and nearby communities to deal with a 
radiation release.

"I'm not worried right away that it's going to be like Three Mile 
Island or Chernobyl," he said

Environmentalists who once targeted nuclear plants have other 
concerns on their plate.

"There are other things we need to focus on, and we can't do it all," 
said Sierra Club member Wallace Horan of Marion.

He said, for example, fighting utilities to win rights for small wind-
power developers is just one of the issues he considers equally 
important to fighting for nuclear safety.

The Iowa Environmental Council has no plans to take a stand on the 
sale or license extension, said Executive Director Rich Leopold.

One critic of the sale Tom Snyder of Dyersville, a renewable energy 
advocate.

"Everybody's become very blase in accepting nuclear power," Snyder 
said. "It scares me."

One reason environmental activists aren't more concerned is Duane 
Arnold's improved operating record in recent years, said David 
Osterberg, associate professor of occupational and environmental 
health at the University of Iowa.

"The people out there have been running the plant pretty well, and we 
should be happy about that," Osterberg said.

Duane Arnold Plant Manager Dean Curtland said the plant's operators 
closely monitor the condition of the plant. The owners are not 
selling the plant because they think it will become less safe or 
reliable, Curtland said, but because of the financial risk.

With the plant fully depreciated, he said the owners do not know how 
much of a return on future plant investments regulators would allow.
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FirstEnergy, one nuclear plant back, has another under spotlight

NORTH PERRY, Ohio (AP) - FirstEnergy Corp. was still struggling to 
get one nuclear power plant back in operation when a series of 
problems and botched repairs at its second Ohio plant alarmed critics 
and put the utility in the cross hairs of regulators.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the industry, rates 
as safe the Davis-Besse and Perry plants, located alongside Lake Erie 
107 miles apart, and FirstEnergy's Beaver Valley operation in 
Shippingport, Pa.

Davis-Besse, whose corroding shield discovered in 2002 ranks among 
the nation's worst nuclear problems since Three Mile Island in 1979, 
and Perry currently are among four of the U.S. nuclear plants under 
the strictest NRC scrutiny. That means more government inspectors in 
the plants making safety checks from top to bottom.

"Our regulatory program is regulating the plants in a way that they 
are operating safely and we have the tools to use to improve 
performance where necessary," said Jan Strasma, an NRC spokesman.

But Perry has been declining in performance for the past year or two, 
Strasma said. "We do have the authority to shut the plant down and 
that's a clear decision that we address every three months." He gave 
no hint whether the NRC was leaning toward a shutdown.

FirstEnergy, which operates from New Jersey to Ohio and gets 37 
percent of its electricity output from nuclear power, knows any 
serious missteps could lead to a shutdown, according to Gary R. 
Leidich, president of the utility's nuclear subsidiary.

"I think they are concerned about us because of the legacy" of Davis-
Besse, Leidich said in an interview at the heavily guarded Perry 
plant 36 miles northeast of Cleveland.

"They always have the ability to shut you down. Quite frankly, I 
don't think we're in a position where we're near that."

History is on the side of FirstEnergy. The NRC hasn't shut down a 
nuclear plant since 1987 and Strasma said the typical scenario 
involves a utility halting operations for repairs rather than face a 
federal order to do so.

Still, the image of the nation's fourth-largest investor-owned 
utility and Perry's green light to operate may hinge on how strictly 
NRC inspectors, stung by criticism of their handling of the Davis-
Besse problems, deal with Perry's less serious but persistent repair 
issues.

"When you have that kind of a legacy, it's going to take a while to 
kind of get out of that situation," said Leidich, who joined one of 
FirstEnergy's predecessor companies, Cleveland Electric Illuminating 
Co., in 1974 and began work on the Perry construction in 1975.

The low point for FirstEnergy came amid a routine 2002 maintenance 
shutdown at Davis-Besse with the discovery of corrosion on the 
plant's reactor vessel, the most extensive ever found at a U.S. 
nuclear reactor. Leaking boric acid had eaten almost through a 6-inch-
thick steel cap. The damage led to a review of 68 similar plants 
nationwide.

The company spent $600 million making repairs and buying replacement 
power because of a two-year shutdown that ended in March 2004.

By the time Davis-Besse, about 30 miles east of Toledo, was back in 
operation, FirstEnergy was struggling with the aftermath of the 2003 
blackout and an emerging pattern of repair problems at Perry. An 
emergency service water pump failed twice and a broken instrument 
gave a false indication of elevated radiation.

David Lochbaum, a nuclear industry watchdog with the Union of 
Concerned Scientists, thinks Perry fell victim to a cyclical pattern 
in which troubled plants draw resources from other sites, leading to 
a new round of problems at the second location.

"It's not uncommon for the sister plants, for a company that owns 
more than one site, for the other plants to stumble shortly after the 
first one does," Lochbaum said.

But that can have indirect benefits when complacent workers at well-
running plants are forced into higher standards as problems emerge, 
he said.

Leidich admitted as much. "We've got to get people to more rigorously 
follow standards, to make sure they are doing everything they need to 
be doing," he said.

Howard Whitcomb of Oak Harbor, who lives seven miles from Davis-Besse 
and worked there as a nuclear scientist before setting up a law 
practice, doubts FirstEnergy has solved the "safety culture" issue. 
That commitment to an unwavering approach to safety first was a key 
issue for regulators as FirstEnergy worked to get Davis-Besse back 
online.

"It appears that a lot of the folks that worked at Davis-Besse were 
reassigned to other areas in the company," he said. "The safety 
culture, in my opinion, has not changed."

Chris Trepal, executive director of the Earth Day Coalition 
environmental group in Cleveland, has heard FirstEnergy's claims of 
safety and doesn't believe it.

"We've had report after report of Perry and Davis-Besse not 
performing to minimum federal standards," she said. "They always say 
they are re-evaluating themselves. It's just hard to really swallow 
it."

Lew M. Myers, chief operating officer of FirstEnergy Nuclear 
Operating Co., said the company has made significant progress 
reducing the backlog of needed repairs. "Every day we're testing 
safety equipment," he said.

Myers said the ability of FirstEnergy to juggle multiple problems at 
its plants and land a safe rating from the NRC demonstrates its 
expertise.

The NRC told FirstEnergy in a letter March 2 that its review of 
Perry's staff showed "a common theme of failure to follow procedures 
or inattention to detail." It cited as examples improper equipment 
installation and failing to check tornado safeguards.

One wild card is a federal grand jury investigation of FirstEnergy 
statements to the NRC on its Davis-Besse inspections and maintenance. 
FirstEnergy said it has been informed by federal prosecutors that 
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating is a target of the probe and charges 
are likely.

U.S. Attorney Gregory White said April 8 that the investigation was 
continuing and "we hope to have it wrapped up in the near future."
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Last shipment of high-level radioactive waste leaves defunct U.S. 
nuclear plant

DENVER (AP) - The last shipment of high-level radioactive waste in 
the $7 billion (5.4 billion) cleanup of the former Rocky Flats 
nuclear weapons plant rumbled off to a dump site in New Mexico.

Since 1999, almost 95,000 barrels of waste have been shipped from 
Rocky Flats, where plutonium triggers were manufactured during the 
Cold War. The Department of Energy has called it the largest and most 
complex project of its kind to date.

Tuesday's last high-level radioactive waste shipment was in three 
containers, containing 11 barrels and one box.

"The nearby communities definitely can feel safer now because this 
was the last of the heavy stuff," said Ken Korkia of the Rocky Flats 
Citizens Advisory Board.

The waste - including contaminated clothing, tools, rags and other 
debris and residues - was trucked from the site just west of Denver 
to a repository in an ancient salt bed formation near Carlsbad, New 
Mexico.

The 10-year project is expected to be complete by November, a year 
ahead of schedule. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to use a 
portion of the 2,496-hectare (6,240-acre) site as a wildlife refuge.

Critics have said the site will not be safe because the cleanup did 
not include sites where radioactive waste was illegally dumped or 
buried.
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Utah Landfill Rejects Soil From Maine Yankee Plant

PORTLAND, Maine (AP)--Rail cars carrying contaminated soil from the 
former Maine Yankee nuclear power plant to a landfill in Utah are 
being returned because previous shipments contained water and leaked.

Regulators monitoring the cleanup of the Wiscasset site don't 
consider the low-level radioactive waste a significant threat, but 
overly saturated soil can leech contamination into underground water 
reserves.

The 48 containers are expected to arrive in Maine over the next 
several weeks, said Eric Howes, a Maine Yankee spokesman. Workers 
then will ensure the soil is dry and the containers sealed before 
reshipping them to Envirocare, one of the nation's only landfills for 
low-level radioactive waste.

Maine Yankee hopes to resume shipments soon, but the problem could 
affect the schedule for finishing the cleanup, Howes said. Plans were 
to complete the $500 million project in February, which has since 
been pushed back to May.

The decommissioning project is now a few months behind schedule 
because of weather and unexpected levels of radioactivity in the 
soil, Howes said. The soil being loaded onto rail cars contains small 
amounts of radioactivity.

"Until you start digging, you don't know how deep it goes," Howes 
said.

The moisture appears to be the result of condensation created as the 
soil warms inside the rail cars, said Ron Bellamy, regional chief of 
decommissioning for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. An 
inspector will return next week to check on rail shipments and other 
activities at Maine Yankee.

"They are in the process, as we speak, of confirming why it's 
occurring and determining whether any steps are warranted," Bellamy 
said.

Tim Barney of Envirocare said Maine Yankee's shipments have generally 
been secure. But the company periodically stops shipments that might 
be too wet because of space limitations in an area reserved to dry 
soil, he said.

The material is considered far less dangerous to the environment than 
nuclear fuel rods stored at the site or the building materials and 
other high-level wastes that have already been removed, according to 
officials monitoring the cleanup.

But Ray Shadis, a longtime Maine Yankee watchdog who closely 
monitored the cleanup, said leaking shipments are a potential 
problem, if not a significant one.

Shadis said Maine Yankee is cutting corners to speed up the process. 
He criticized a decision to leave behind radioactive piping that will 
be buried in place, for example.

"It is the least contaminated of all the materials they are shipping 
offsite," he said. "Just because it's in low concentration doesn't 
mean it isn't a matter for environmental concern."
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Ship carrying nuclear waste reprocessed in France arrives in Japan

TOKYO (AP) - A ship carrying radioactive waste reprocessed in France 
returned to Japan on Wednesday, an official said.

The ship carrying 124 containers of waste for storage arrived at a 
port in Rokkasho village in northern Japan, said Masahiro Nakajima, 
spokesman of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.

The cargo was the tenth such shipment to Japan, whose utility 
companies are under contract with either French and British firms to 
reprocess their waste, Nakajima said.

Waste from Japanese nuclear reactors is routinely sent on ships to 
Britain and France for reprocessing, then returned for storage in 
Japan, despite repeated calls by Pacific Island states for a halt to 
the shipments.

Critics of such shipments say they are vulnerable to terrorist 
attack.

There has been no release of radioactivity from the shipments to 
date, according to British Nuclear Fuels, which carried out the 
shipment.

In the latest shipment, the Pacific Sandpiper, a British freighter, 
carried the material reprocessed at France's COGEMA La Hague plant. 
It left Cherbourg, northwestern France, on Feb. 18.

The reprocessed nuclear waste was to be unloaded by Wednesday evening 
and then transported to a storage facility in Rokkasho village, about 
7 kilometers (4.3 miles) away, he said.

Rokkasho lies about 580 kilometers (360 miles) northeast of Tokyo.

The reprocessed nuclear waste will be stored there for about 30 to 50 
years, Nakajima said.
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Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant faces potentially dangerous 
power cut due to debt

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the 
world's worst nuclear accident, is facing a potentially dangerous 
power cut due to a huge debt, an official said Friday.

The state-run company responsible for decommissioning the plant where 
a reactor exploded in 1986 in the world's worst commercial nuclear 
accident, owes more than US$6 million (4.6 million) in overdue wages 
and unpaid bills for electricity, gas, fuel and transport, said 
company spokesman Semyon Shtein.

Shtein warned that the cutoff of electricity and gas supplies could 
be "rather dangerous and it can result in breaches of nuclear 
safety." He did not elaborate.

Shtein said his company had warned Ukraine's government of the 
potential danger.

He said the plant will be forced to use its own scarce fuel reserves 
to power generators and provide transport for workers if the plant is 
cut off from the power grid and gas supply.

The Soviet-era accident on April 26, 1986, at the plant about 100 
kilometers (some 60 miles) north of the Ukrainian capital sent 
radioactive fallout over then-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and 
much of northern Europe.

Some 7 million people are estimated to suffer from radiation-related 
effects, and Ukraine has registered some 4,400 deaths blamed on the 
accident. Chernobyl's last working reactor was shut down in December 
2000, but decommissioning works have continued.

Chernobyl's managers have repeatedly warned that the decommissioning 
might be delayed due to lack of funds for the storage of nuclear fuel 
from the undamaged reactors and the highly radioactive debris that is 
still scattered inside the destroyed reactor No. 4, which was hastily 
entombed in a concrete-and-steel shelter after the accident.

The shelter is crumbling and Ukrainian and Western experts say it 
needs urgent repairs.

Shtein said that the money for Chernobyl's expenses was expected to 
be allocated earlier this year from a special state fund. He said the 
money has never reached it because of the government's failure to 
finalize details for their transfer.

Earlier this month, Ukraine's Energy and Fuel Minister Ivan Plachkov 
said that it would cost over US$1 billion (770 million) to build a 
new, safer structure to confine the destroyed reactor, and that 
foreign donors including the United States had promised to 
contribute.

Work on the new confinement structure is scheduled to begin next year 
and end within three years, Plachkov said. Separately, a Ukrainian-
Russian consortium began a three-year operation aimed at reinforcing 
the existing structure over the reactor.
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Hundreds of Chernobyl survivors rally in Kiev to demand more 
compensation

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Hundreds of Chernobyl survivors marched in 
downtown Kiev Saturday to demand more compensation for victims of the 
world's worst nuclear accident 19 years ago.

The Ukrainian Chernobyl Union, a group representing victims of the 
disaster, organized the march to press for an increase in social 
benefits, payment of overdue compensation and better medical 
treatment for thousands of people directly affected by the accident.

Many protesters carried photographs of loved ones killed in the 1986 
accident and banners with slogans reading "Chernobyl is closed, are 
the problems of Chernobyl forgotten?" Police estimated the crowd at 
around 700.

The explosion of Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986 sent 
radioactive fallout over then-Soviet Ukraine, Russia and much of 
northern Europe. Some 3.3 million Ukrainians, including 1.5 million 
children, were affected by the accident at the plant, located about 
100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kiev, and receive financial or 
other forms of compensation such as subsidized vacations and medical 
treatment.

The victims' group said it will soon submit request to parliament for 
a tenfold increase in social benefits by 2006. Many, however, said 
they suspect the government will not agree to pay them more.

"We are already tired of hoping for better. The draft envisions a big 
increase, but ... it seems the government does not have such money," 
said Chernobyl victim Tamara Tikhonova, 68.

The value of the average monthly compensation for those directly 
affected by the accident depends on what effects each person 
suffered, but it rarely exceeds 250 hryvnas (US$50, 35). These 
victims include some of the 25,000 families who lived near to the 
doomed plant and thousands of cleanup workers sent to help cope with 
the immediate aftermath of the nuclear tragedy.

Some 7 million people across the former Soviet Union are estimated to 
suffer from radiation-related effects, and Ukraine has registered 
some 4,400 deaths blamed on the accident. Chernobyl's last 
functioning reactor was shut down in December 2000, but 
decommissioning works have continued.

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