The World - News from April 23, 1987

One year after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the reactor’s temperature hovers near the boiling point, radioactive contamination of the area’s soil remains higher than normal and 13 badly burned people are still invalids, Soviet officials said. However, most people in the area are in good health, and milk supplies, at first found to contain radioactive iodine, are now safe, the officials added. At least 31 people died as a result of the April 26, 1986, accident at Chernobyl, 80 miles north of Kiev.