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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 August 1990, translates an OGONEK interview by Vanda Beletskaya with Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov, former president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Aleksandrov blames the Chernobyl accident on an ill-considered experiment prepared by Donenergo that violated operating instructions. He also describes earlier nuclear plant defects, Legasov's suicide, and his dealings with Beria and Kapitsa. He argues for continued atomic power engineering and a law on nuclear power.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990 ## Document 6 of 16 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 01 Aug 90 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UST-90-012 UDC Number: Author(s): OGONEK correspondent Vanda Beletskaya: ''OGONEK Correspondent Vanda Beletskaya Talks With Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov''; date and place not give; first six paragraphs are OGONEK introduction] Headline: Former Academy President Aleksandrov on Chernobyl, Sakharov Source Line: 917A0006A Moscow OGONEK in Russian No 35, Aug 90 pp 6-10 Subslug: [Interview with Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov by OGONEK correspondent Vanda Beletskaya: ''OGONEK Correspondent Vanda Beletskaya Talks With Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov''; date and place not give; first six paragraphs are OGONEK introduction] ## FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Interview with Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov by OGONEK correspondent Vanda Beletskaya: "OGONEK Correspondent Vanda Beletskaya Talks With Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov''; date and place not give; first six paragraphs are OGONEK introduction] 2. [Text] I arrived in advance at the Institute of Atomic Energy imeni Kurchatov. Time remained until the appointed hour, and I wandered about the grounds of the institute, which Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov headed for nearly 30 years, and thought about the fate of the scientist, which just recently seemed so fortunate to everyone. 3. He was an undergraduate of Kiev University, when Academician A.F. Ioffe (a student of Roentgen himself!) invited him to work at the famous Leningrad Physical Technical Institute... Then work and friendship with I.V. Kurchatov. The light of the reputation of the legendary scientist also falls on Aleksandrov, who after the death of Igor Vasilyevich was in charge of the solution of the atomic problem. 4. Academician Aleksandrov, three times Hero of Socialist Labor, has orders, nearly all the ones that have been established in the country (eight Orders of Lenin!). There are all the prizes--the Stalin Prize, the Lenin Prize, the State Prize. 5. When in 1975 Anatoliy Petrovich became president of the Academy
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 22 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.