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REFERRED/RECOMMEND RELEAS'<br />

To <strong>CIA</strong><br />

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Directorate of Intelligence<br />

26 December 1991<br />

Ukraine: Who Will Manage<br />

<strong>Chernobyl</strong>?<br />

Summary<br />

A pressing challenge for leaders in the newly independent<br />

Ukraine will be to reconcile the public to the fact that, althoughtheO<br />

republic may now control its political destiny, it<br />

will have to continue to defer to Russia on Some economic<br />

and technical decisions. One such decision is the emotioncharged<br />

issue of the management of the <strong>Chernobyl</strong> nuclear<br />

power plant and the republic's overall nuclear energy industry.<br />

In the summer of 1991, the Ukrainian parliament<br />

passed a resolution asserting Kiev's right to exercise primary<br />

authority over atomic installations in the republic, Indeed,<br />

when a sen'ous fire broke out at the Chemobyl nuclear<br />

power station a few months later, Kiev took the lead<br />

~. mAnemolra~dumc was preparedd b) ell I fthe beoff~~~ of Ldeade'~'lp<br />

a YSIS. omments quenes are we come an may u.u~ete to<br />

the Chief, RC Division, ani!!. _<br />

- 1 -<br />

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