More Evacuated From ‘Dirty’ Radiation Spots, Soviets Report
The Communist Party daily Pravda indicated today that more people were evacuated from isolated “dirty spots” of radiation contamination beyond the 18-mile evacuation zone around the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The newspaper gave no figures for the number of people moved from areas of the Gomel region of southern Byelorussia, or the exact locations of the contaminated areas.
But in an article entitled “A Red Line on the Map,” Pravda said a thorough review of the 18-mile danger zone and areas beyond it “allowed us to make significant corrections in which people may return to some areas, but from others additional evacuations were needed.”
Soviet officials said 92,000 people were evacuated from an area within 18 miles of the power plant after the April 26 explosion and fire at its reactor No. 4. The four-reactor power station is 80 miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, the Soviet Union’s third-largest city with 2.4 million people.
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