The World - News from Oct. 2, 1986

Reactor No. 1 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station resumed producing power for commercial use, more than five months after the plant suffered the world’s worst nuclear accident, Soviet television reported from the scene. “After five months of silence, the turbines have started working,” a reporter said. The Ukraine power station was shut down after an explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor April 26. That reactor is being entombed in concrete, but the undamaged No. 2 reactor also is expected to resume output soon.