‘76 E. German Nuclear Incident Described
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BONN — East Germany in 1976 narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, the West German magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
According to the magazine, a fire at the Lubmin nuclear power station, near Greifswald on the Baltic coast, almost led to a meltdown of the plant’s radioactive core when safety measures failed.
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