![]() ![]() ![]() The US presidential Chief of Staff, Mr Donald Regan, on tour with Mr Reagan, is reported to have offered American help. Mr Jim Harding, former adviser to the chairman of the Californian Energy Commission, said the leak made the Three Mile Island affair look like a tea party. The BBC news service said it was almost certainly the worst in history. It said it had no power to police reactors but could offer help in an emergency.Įven from the scanty evidence available it is believed that the accident, involving a 1000 megawatt reactor, is of major proportions. The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said it had been notified of the accident but given no details. Scandinavian readings today showed a decline in radioactivity. The leakage has drifted more than 1600 kilometres over Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, but experts say the only danger to health would be in the immediate area of the accident. ![]() The Soviet Union at first denied that there had been trouble, but the news agency, Tass, later reported the accident after radiation levels six times higher than normal were reported over Scandinavia and 600 workers were evacuated from a Swedish power station. ![]()
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