Title

Chernobyl: Five Years Later

Friday, April 26, 1991
10:00am
2168 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
United States
Official Transcript: 
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Members: 
Name: 
Christopher Smith
Title Text: 
Chairman
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Joseph Pitts
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Witnesses: 
Name: 
Rita Klimova
Title: 
Ambassador
Body: 
Former Czechoslovakia
Name: 
Dr. David Marples
Title: 
Director
Body: 
Program for Study of Contemporary Ukraine
Name: 
Dr. Natalia Preobrazhenksa
Body: 
Committee for Chernobyl Problems of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers’ Commission for Extraordinary Circumstance

Held as a fifth anniversary commemoration of the disaster at Chernobyl, the briefing featured a short film that was produced by an Australian film company on Chernobyl’s progress in the five years after the crisis. Afterward, Samuel Wise, staff director at the Commission, led the discussion on the damage Chernobyl continued to have on surrounding regions in 1991.

Witnesses Dr. David Marples and Dr. Natalia Preobrazhensk addressed the environmental concerns and political authority over Chernobyl, along with how Ukraine’s judicial system had dealt with the situation. They also acknowledged the situation of Soviet nuclear power at the time.

Relevant issues: 
Energy and Environment
Relevant countries: 
Ukraine
Leadership: 
Dennis De Concini
Steny Hoyer
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