Blast Rips USSR Nuclear Plant

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From: Marc Ries
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 15:47

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From the 9/14/90 Los Angeles Times (pg. A26)

Soviet Union
Blast Rips Nuclear Plant; Several Hurt

 An explosion and fire at a nuclear fuel production plant in the Soviet
 Far East injured several people and threatened to contaminate the region's
 air and water, the official Tass news agency said.  The blast in Kazakhstan
 sent gas clouds over a region near the Soviet borders with Mongolia and
 China.  Tass said an explosion ripped through the Ulba plant's cellar
 workshop producing beryllium, a highly toxic heavy metal used to fuel
 nuclear reactors.  The Agency said that early tests indicated that
 beryllium and beryllium compounds were at twice the permitted level in the
 air and water.

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