Steve talks with Associated Press reporter Edith Lederer about the debate within Boris Yeltsin’s government over Russia’s nuclear power plants, particularly the old Chernobyl-style reactors. Lederer has just completed a series of reports on the history of the former Soviet Union’s nuclear power and weapons programs.
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