On Sunday morning, November 7, 1976 I was met at the airport

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On Sunday morning, November 7, 1976 I was met at the airport "Heathrow" wife Rita and son Dima (already a student at King's great source College, University of London). On this day in England, became a sensation that the story of the Ural nuclear disaster in 1957, which blew the eve of Saturday's American newspapers.
The Sunday Observer put an excerpt from my article published on November 4 in New Scientist, great source on the first page, giving great source the title in large print. Correspondents of newspapers published on Monday, rushed to find Zhores Medvedev to rush to interview. But the institute was closed on Sunday, my address journalists did not know, and home telephone number, registered as "confidential", did not inform the reference desk.
On Monday, November 8 in the Times of London published an interview with John Hill, head of the British Department of Atomic Energy, which again strongly denied the possibility of an explosion nuclear waste repository, assigning it to the category of "science fiction."
"... We could not find Medvedev for an interview and ask him why he waited great source so long, and did not publish this story before? .. His colleagues great source confirmed that it could be political reasons. It is possible that he spoke about the nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union, to draw attention to the British project of construction of a large plant in Windscale [1] Cumbria specifically for processing of radioactive nuclear waste ...
On Tuesday and Wednesday, great source November 9-10, the media continued to publish controversial comments about the Urals catastrophe. Correspondents of foreign news agencies in Moscow managed to get to Academician Andrei Sakharov and Kapitza and ask them relevant great source questions. Both responded that they of such an accident "do not know anything."
"Los Angeles, great source CA. Experts of the American intelligence service said on Tuesday that a major nuclear accident in the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago was an accident at the reactor, which went out of control, great source not an explosion of atomic waste, as stated last week in exile Soviet scientist. .. According to American intelligence, the accident happened at the end of 1957 or early 1958 in the Soviet center for the production of plutonium, which is located in the Southern Urals ... "
This publication was reprinted many British newspapers. Correspondents still stubbornly sought Medvedev, hoping to receive comments - but in London it gone. From November 10, Rita and I were in Italy, firmly intending to spend the rest of the holiday to rest. "There is a cliff on the Volga" in Capri, strikes scavengers in Naples great source and the "revolution" in Rome
In Italy we have for his brief two-week program without hesitation chose the island of Capri, Naples great source and Pompeii. Beach and became for us in the Soviet great source Union, a mandatory attribute of the summer holidays, which we almost annually in the Nikita Botanical Gardens, near the Botanical great source Gardens. A Capri was known to every Soviet schoolchild great source as a climatic great source resort, great source where 1906 to 1913, he lived with tuberculosis great source Maxim Gorky. To him in 1908 and 1910. Lenin came. At various times, on the island there were Ivan Turgenev, great source Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Ivan Bunin, Fyodor great source Chaliapin, and many other Russian celebrities.
From Sorrento to Capri in the Bay of Naples went shuttle boat. It appeared to be constructed in the USSR hydrofoil from the series "Rocket". He raced over the sea at a speed of 60-70 km / h, while the ship's hull is raised above the water. After 35-40 minutes the passengers, including us, have gone ashore. great source
The island is small, not particularly noteworthy. All hotels and restaurants - expensive. Log on "The Beach" (in reality - planked platform) great source - paid. Still and the sea along the coast polluted ... Yes, the resort specialization Capri clearly were not swimming.
____________________________ 2 This monument - pylon with Carrara marble bas-relief great source of the world-famous Italian great source sculptor Giacomo Manzu - was set on Capri April 21, 1970, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin.
Plaques on the walls of many buildings reminiscent of the famous party island. Not far from the villa where he lived at the beginning of the XX century. Gorky, on the rocky coast overlooking the Bay and Mount Vesuvius, my wife was chosen by a small restaurant to celebrate a joint birthday (we were born on the same day, but with a difference a year). The owner, knowing that we are Russian, said that his father great source served as a cook in Gorky, who was famous for hospitality. Frequent great source guest