Chernobyl is in 'IT COULDN'T happen unanimous claim by hours after Swedish scientists first noticed radiation levels one hundred times above normal. The radiation was coming trom the huge cloud released by the nuclear power plant near Kiev in the USSR.
catastrophe of this type couldn't happen in this country because we don't have the same reactors -to build one on the model of Three Mile Island in the United States. tually kill anyone, at any rate for a few weeks. And - a unique internationalist contribution from Neil Kinnock blowing over Britain in any worry about, nothing at all — and if there was, it was the 'Reds' fault.
First thought in the disaster must go to the Soviet people suffering from it — and reports indicate high casualties. But the second thought must be that the proposed Sizewell B reactor -the model for the entire next wave of nuclear construction in Britain -to melt down than the Russian designs. plants also have a 'containment vessel' around the reactor which is damage, should there be a melt-down. But this does not mean that a melt-down is any less likely! It simply means the damage might be more limited.
The Three Mile Island plant in the USA, which threatened a melt down not long ago in the most serious nuclear accident until also a pressurised water reactor and also had a containment vessel. That didn't stop the radiation leak. It simply limited its effects. It also proved 'our allies' no more safe than the reds.
Are the nuclear industry's apologists trying to tell us that although there will be nuclear achere' was the British 'experts' 12 supposedly although we're going The radiation level won't acthe wind wasn't actually case. Nothing to IT - is acutally more likely UK' intended to limit that time, was nuclear plants, or 'our own, TOO Tuesday nation. By demonstrators. further state ter Europea ference of capitula A package of 'sanctions against terrorism' was rushed through and the Libyan diplomats started being unceremoniously rushed out Europe's capitals.
ministers had Zealand the nothing to stop it.
this week proved? Not just the abamorality of the capitalist governments of Europe whose stand registers one and only one principle in international rela tions: "might is right'. second principle also follows. Because the USA is the mightiest, it is also the rightest! Reagan has achieved an important objective of his diplomacy, to prepare the necessal y Way 11 an Nicaragua. He has proved that whateve Europe's governments' objections, ope's capitalists from US ' The real OD position to US imperialism has come trom Europe's workers, youth, and peace The fact that Europe's capitalists rivals of the USA only in the struggle to hold down smash up une unid world. West European imperialisms, true, are in increasingly open rivalry USA But this rivalry cannot be mistaken ful alternative.
PRIME MINISTER quite roning to resist us capital capital when it tries to take over European helicopter TIrmS - but let the USA invade Grenada or bomb. innocent civilians in irip oli, and all we get is the most OSCUS CU hypocritical mumblings prior to abject capitulation.
The working class, not capitalist governments are the only force that will oppose imperialism or their own — in Western Europe.
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