The New Scientist has a facinating interview with one of the few engineers who survived Chernoybl.

Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl’s reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel. Here he speaks to Michael Bond about what happened that night

I don’t know that I’d want to talk about it either.
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Ivan and the Islands
I don’t know if the Jamaica Gleaner will be online for long as Ivan comes ashore.
Grenada is destroyed. 33 people are dead. 90 percent of the islands buildings are flattened. The island is about twice the size of Washington DC with a population of 89 thousand.

3 million people live in Jamaica, and 40 thousand on the Caymen Islands.
Cuba is preparing for landfall Sunday.