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["Leif Peterson, Ph.D." <peterson@bcm.tmc.edu>]

Dear Radsafers:

Maybe you read the papers maybe you don't.  In any event
the following message sheds some light on the power 
production which is still going on at the other reactors 
at Chernobyl.  I wonder if there is any research
on psychosocial aspects of working inside the 30 mile 
Exclusion Zone.  In addition, what kind of ALIs and DACs
are the occupationally exposed limited to? 

Overall, the posting I thought was interesting because 
it describes some of the excess baggage, i.e., economic, 
above and beyond health effects among victims presumably exposed
to radionuclides from a reactor that burped 10 years ago.  
It looks like we need to modify disaster preparedness with 
a new subcategory: Who's going to cough up all the 
megabucks for cleanup and remediation of accidents occurring
in countries that are hard-pressed to foot the bill on
their own! 


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AP 2 Nov 95 15:20 EST V0290
 
Copyright 1995 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
 
The information contained in this news report may not be published,
broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of
the Associated Press.
 
Talks On Chernobyl Break Down

   KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Talks broke down Thursday on a $2 billion foreign
aid package to help Ukraine shut the Chernobyl nuclear plant. 
   Would-be Western donors had pressed Ukraine to commit to a schedule to
close the plant, site of the world's worst nuclear power plant accident. 
   For its part, Ukraine wanted "a very detailed scheme for the final plan:
which country gives how much money through which bank and so forth," said
Environment Ministry spokesman Volodymyr Martyniuk. 
   Negotiations will resume later through diplomatic channels, officials
from Ukraine and the Western countries said. 
   Ukraine promised shortly after independence in 1991 to close the
remaining two reactors at Chernobyl. It later threatened to keep the plant
operating unless it gets about $4 billion from the West. 
   The United States and the other members of the Group of Seven rich
industrialized democracies responded with a plan to loan Ukraine $1.8
billion and give it another $450 million. Ukraine would have to come up with
about $900 million. 
   Martyniuk refused to say if Ukraine was trying to get Western negotiators
to raise their offer. 
   Ukraine says it needs to build replacement plants, offer housing and
other aid to workers, and make up for revenue that will be lost when
Chernobyl closes. 
   Chernobyl still brings about $400 million a year to the Ukraine
government, Martyniuk said. 
   "Stopping the reactor (means) a hole in our budget," he said. 
   A reactor exploded and caught fire at Chernobyl in 1986, spewing
radiation across parts of the former Soviet Union and western Europe. 
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 Paul Cooper, M.A.  (pcooper@bcm.tmc.edu)
   Center for Cancer Control Research
      Baylor College of Medicine
 (713) 798-5380 voice  (713) 798-3990 fax
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With best regards,

Leif Peterson



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