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20 Symour Palty Tribune, Symourf Indiono Thursday, Moy 22, 1986 Soviet official says nuclear We're Asking You experts nauTiiiaucquiiic gear This week's question: What is your reaction to having the Aisin SeikT Co. relocate in Seymour? MOSCOW (AP) Experts dealing with the Chernobyl nuc i mmm MM 1 lear disaster aia noi nave aii uie equipment they needed, and engineers have been brought to the scene to plan how to deal with any future reactor accidents, a Soviet! official said. a Soviet official said today in Vienna, Austria, that the death toll from the April 26 nuclear accident at the Ukrainian power station has risen to 15. It was not known whether the new' figure included two men Soviets said died the day. of the accident.

Boris Semyonov also 4old the' International Atomic Energy Agency that 20 people were in critical condition from radiation sickness. It was reported earlier that 35 people were hospitalized after the accident with severe radiation-sickness, and an Amer- i can doctor said last week 11 of those patients had died. In a Radio Moscow interview Wednesday night, Deputy Premier Ivan Silayevsaid Soviet technology did not perform badly after the Chernobyl accident, but the disaster suggested better facilities" are needed. "The incident has taught us a complained about the initial response by on-site personnel to the reactor explosion and fire, and about the organization of radiation-warning services around the plant. Also in Vienna today; International Atomic Energy Agency policy makers said they have reached preliminary agreement on ways to make nuclear plants safer, including setting up panels of government experts to work out a system of mandatory reporting of nuclear accidents.

There has been widespread criticism of the Soviet Union for i holding back information during the first days after the Chernobyl accident, while a cloud of radioactivity was spreading over much of Europe and gradually stretched around the world. In the Radio Moscow interview, Silayev appeared to be talking about equipment to handle accidents, not better safety devices for nuclear reactors. "We have invited our designers and machine builders here," Silayev said. "We are showing them what is required in such circumstances, what facilities there ought to be, and they are of course to map out a program for us to use in similar or other circumstances." Silayev said no one can rule out another accident like the one at Chernobyl, termed the worst in history by off icials of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Silayev also said he was being given a leave from his post as chief of operations at the Chernobyl site, and was being re placed by another deputy pre mier, Lev Voronin.

Soviet newspapers, which had been carrying daily reports from the accident scene and areas where the 92,000 evacuees are living, dropped on-site coverage to-day and instead criticized Western reaction to the accident, i Pravda, the Communist Party daily, charged Western politicians were creating "heaps of lies" about the accident, and the Russian republic government newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya claimed some were showing "dev light in the misfortune of others. On Wednesday, a Soviet nuclear safety official said experts were conducting experiments on Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor when it exploded. Viktor Sidorenko, the deputy chairman of the state committee for nuclear inspection, also told reporters that authorities in Moscow were notified of the trouble in less than three hours. The Kremlin said nothing about the accident until nearly three days later, after Sweden demanded an explanation for high levels of radiation detected in Scandinavia.

Sidorenko met with a few Western journalists in one of several interviews with government experts that have been arranged in the past two weeks. A transcript of his remarks was provided to The Associated Press. In his meeting, Sidorenko declined to describe the experiments that had been underway at Chernobyl, and would not give a detailed explanation of the accident's cause. Jane Meyer Seymour Nurse I'm glad they're coming. The more jobs we get, the better off the community will be.

Rod Harris Bartender Columbus ys- It think it will help out the community of Seymour. People will have more jobs. Gary Gilbert Seymour Principal It's a good opportunity for the residents' of Seymour. A lot of people worked long and hard to bring industry to Seymour, and I think it's a step in the right great aeai, auayev iuiu ivauiu Moscow in the broadcast monitored in London, by the British Broadcasting Corp. His comments marked the first time a Soviet official has suggested that equipment had not been adequate to combat a radiation accident at the Chernobyl plant 80 miles north of Kiev.

Other officials, however, have 7' Dutch voters give Lubbers new term climbed from 45 to a projected 54 seats. day's voting gave Lubbers' coalition of centrist Christian Democrats and right-wing Liberals 81 seats in the 150-seat legislature, two more than in the 1982-86 Parliament. The opposition Labor Party gained five seats, for a total of 52. THE HAGUE, Netherlands AP Dutch voters gave Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers' center-right coalition government a new four-year term, putting a stamp of approval on his hardline" economic policies and decision to deploy NATO cruise missiles. Melissa Boutrous Seymour Student Bertha Moorman Seymour Library assistant Two parties at opposite extremes of the political spectrum the Dutch Communist Party and the ultra-right Centrum Party lost their parliamentary seats.

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