The World - News from Feb. 19, 1987

The Kremlin will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect two more Soviet nuclear facilities, the agency’s top official said. Director General Hans Blix, addressing a meeting of the agency’s board of governors, said a fast breeder reactor at Byeloyarsk and a spent fuel repository at Novovoronezh will join several other facilities in the Soviet Union already opened to inspection under a 1985 agreement. Blix said nuclear safety activities worldwide have increased dramatically since 1986, when at least 31 people died in an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.