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The Mayak Chemical Combine resides in
Siberia
, in a very
picturesque
region of the country. However, after years of
lax
safety at the
nuclear facility
(which produced the materials for the first
Russian nuclear bombs
, and now processes
spent radioactive fuel
from around
Europe
) the area has been covered in
radioactivity
. The main safety risks/breaches are as follows:
Lake Karachay
: In the
50s
and
60s
nuclear waste
was repeatedly and
deliberately
dumped into this lake, conveniently
adjoining
the main plant. Too bad that it was
seasonally dry
, and that unusually strong winds grabbed all of the radioactive
sediment
and chucked it over parts of Russia. By this point Mayak was putting out more
becquerels
into the environment over decades than
Chernobyl
did in one go.
Techa River
: The Russians also dumped
neat
nuclear waste into this river, which not only flowed towards the
arctic circle
and therefore contaminated the
unspoilt wilderness
of the
ice cap
, but was also the source of
drinking water
and a local bathing spot for the village adjoining Mayak,
Cheyabilinsk
. The net result? Cancer and also plenty of horribly
mutated
children.
Various
accidents
: Mayak has not been without its fair share of accidents...like that
storage tank
full of nuclear waste exploding. That's a few more becquerels in the environment then. And that one with the fire...which happened twice. In rhe same decade.
Mayak is currently in the process of being
shut down
, for obvious reasons. The
Russian government
is only just taking notice of the fact that all of its nuclear plants have been involved in some form of
safety incident
, and that you can't cover up people dying and having
deformed children
. And you can't silence
Greenpeace
.
Sources:
http://archive.greenpeace.org/mayak
http://www.bellona.com
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