Belgium

Andrej Cebela from Sava in Slovenia, who during the seminar temporarily lived in Belgium, is responsible for this contribution. He presents two articles from the 30th April 1986. The first one was published in the newspaper “De Standaard”. The second one is from “Today’s De Morgen”.

De Standaard (30th April 1986):

Experts suspect super-accident.
Reactor fire in Soviet Union: possible disaster.

Moscow / Bonn / Brussels, the Soviet news agency “Tass” made official announcement that on Tuesday an accident in Chernobyl occurred, in Kiev (Ukraine) two men were killed. A resident of Kiev told Western journalists that the disaster might cause more than 2.000 people’s death. Moscow made the news of the disaster on Monday, after an unusually high radioactivity was measured in Scandinavia.

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