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...decay of nuclei goes on. The uncooled reactor core could eventually get hot enough to melt through its casing and the surrounding building, causing fires that loft radioactive material into the atmosphere. Under the worst circumstances, the core melts through the earth and in a "China Syndrome" reaches the underground water table and triggers the further release of radioactive particles. In an effort to minimize the chances for such disasters, Sweden is developing the PIUS (for Process Inherent Ultimately Safe) reactor, which is immersed in a giant pool of water. If the primary cooling system on PIUS fails, pool water...
...runs deep, Jaruzelski was able to put on a triumphant face before the congress. Solidarity, perhaps the greatest threat to Communist rule in the East bloc since Czechoslovakia's uprising in 1968, had at last been all but crushed after the capture two weeks earlier of Zbigniew Bujak, the underground's mastermind. Former leaders who are free, like Lech Walesa, the sturdy electrician from Gdansk, have withdrawn from public life. Partly because of Solidarity's collapse, the Catholic Church has resumed its role as the sole counterweight to Jaruzelski's regime...
...opposition is down, however, it is far from out. Thanks to its organization into cells, Solidarity can survive the arrest of many members. A meeting of underground leaders after Bujak's capture, for example, reportedly drew the heaviest attendance for such a gathering since martial law was imposed in December 1981. The measure was lifted in July...
...participant. "We are bogged down here, really stalemated." Unflagging support for SDI also dims the prospect for any agreement on nuclear testing. The Soviets have called for a total moratorium and have not detonated a nuclear device since August 1985. But some of the weapons envisioned by SDI require underground nuclear tests. The Pentagon argues that testing is needed to ensure the reliability of its arms stockpile. While continuing with tests, the U.S. has proposed that on-site monitors be permitted to verify the current ban on detonations with yields greater than 150 kilotons. When the U.S. suggested in March...
...unprecedented arrangement will allow U.S. seismologists to place three monitoring stations within 100 miles of Semipalatinsk, 1,800 miles from Moscow in eastern Kazakhstan, and Soviet scientists to erect their sensors near Yucca Flats, Nev., where U.S. universities have monitored underground tests for years. (Atmospheric tests were halted in 1963 after the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty.) The U.S. team, led by University of Colorado Seismologist Charles Archambeau, will place digital seismometers in three 300-ft.-deep holes drilled by the Soviets. A two-man team will remain near Semipalatinsk to monitor the findings...