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- Feb. 08, 1993: Money for Red Nuke
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE, Page 22
- Money for Red Nukes
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- <body>
- <p>Former enemies start a fund to make old power plants safer
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- <p> The Soviet Bloc is dead, but its nuclear menace lives on--not so much now in missiles as in about 60 unsafe power plants.
- Officials of the Group of Seven major industrial countries--all cold war enemies of the ex-communists--have agreed in
- principle to set up a fund that would lend money to nations of
- Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to fix up their
- nuclear dinosaurs. The U.S. and Japan overcame their skepticism
- about multilateral rather than bilateral funding, and will make
- small initial contributions. Though the fund is eventually
- supposed to total $700 million, it will start with $75 million,
- all but $14 million put up by Germany and France--the G-7
- nations most likely to breathe fallout borne by the winds from
- a reactor accident in Eastern Europe. One problem: what to do
- with 19 Chernobyl-style reactors that cannot be made safe and
- should be shut down altogether--which would deprive their
- surrounding areas of needed electricity.
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- </body>
- </article>
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