Kyshtym seriously malfunctioned. A cooling system foul-up crippled a breeder reactor near the Caspian Sea in 1973. In Czechoslovakia, one power station leaked radioactive gas in 1976 and radioactive waste water in 1977.
Will a strong "no-nuke" movement develop within the Soviet bloc? Probably not under the more repressive regimes in the USSR, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, say the authors. But in Poland and Hungary, where Western newscasts have alerted radio listeners...