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theworkingman Just Starting Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 5	Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:01 am    Post subject: radiation What cities in Russia are most contaminated by radiation? Joe
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joera Frequent Guest Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 26	Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:26 pm    Post subject: all cities,.. and all russians look like frogs and give light at night.,............ sorry for that..... Russia is a very large country. There will be spots with immense contamination. Still like most russians i'll jump in a river for a swim and buy fresh fish. 95% of russia will be clean compared to for example my country, the netherlands. There are cities that are build around heavy industry or military complexes. Sometimes these cities are 'closed' meaning only citizens and people with permission will be allowed to enter. You'll have bigger ones like Zelenogorsk near Krasnoyarsk (approx. 70.000 citizens), but most will only inhabit a 100-1000 souls with one little road leading to it. you'll never end up there.
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wavetossed WayToRussified Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 339	Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:41 pm    Post subject: I believe that Ozersk, north of Chelyabinsk, is the most contaminated city because of the Mayak nuclear disaster that happened there in 1956. This is a closed city which does not appear on any Russian maps but it is about a kilometer or two east of Kyshtym which does appear on maps. The Mayak disaster left a trace of radioactive contamination stretching about 150 kilometers to the northeast of Ozersk. If you would like to go through this zone, take a bus between Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. I've done this several times. There is an active ecology movement in Chelyabinsk that comemorates the Mayak disaster every year and which opposes further development of the nuclear facilities in the area. There is some defense industry in a section of northern Chelyabinsk city and this area is supposed to also have some low-level radioactive contamination.
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Camrade VIP Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 516 Location: Санкт-Петербург	Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:52 pm    Post subject: 2theworkingman all places with high level of radiation are protected by military guys I mean special areas of nuclear powerstations and so on))
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blaked Lounge Lizard Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 180 Location: Moscow	Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject: That part of the Urals - Magnitogorsk, etc - is dirty and full of heavy industry.
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Skip Talk Show Host Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 283 Location: Planet Warez	Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:53 pm    Post subject: blaked wrote: That part of the Urals - Magnitogorsk, etc - is dirty and full of heavy industry. If I can enlarge upon radioactive poisoning and also mention Dzerzhinsk, near to Nihizny Novgorod, for it's severe chemical pollutants which are a legacy of chemical weapons research and manufacture... Quote: Dzerzhinsk, a once-secret Russian city, is where the former Soviet Union made its vast arsenal of chemical weapons and other industrial chemicals. The chemical weapons are now history, but Dzerzhinsk is not an idle relic of the Cold War. A quarter of the city's 300,000 residents are still employed in the factories turning out toxic chemicals. Please search the following website(s) for more information... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/2821835.stm It's the city which bears the worst chemical contamination in the world and has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records to that effect. Perhaps even more shocking is the fact that chemical production continues there today, and that people live in a microcosm of fore-shortened mortality and incredibly high instances of cancer and other diseases Of course there is much more information on the internet in Russian and also English language... you'll just have to dig for it... The following is an extract of slightly more technical information from a source which you can look up in full at the following address... http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/cbw/jptac008_l94001.htm Chemical Weapons in Russia: History, Ecology, Politics [Khimicheskoye Oruzhiye V Rossii: Istoriya, Ekologiya, Politika ] by Doctor of Chemical Sciences Lev Aleksandrovich Fedorov Moscow Center of Ecological Policy of Russia 1994 [27 July 1994] In 1939, a Levenstein yperite production facility was organized in shop No 3 of "Zavodstroy" in Dzerzhinsk (it was plant No 96, and is today "Kaprolaktam" Production Association) [36, 69, 79]. Production of Levenstein yperite was continued in 1941-1942 as well (2933 and 480 metric tons respectively), when the plant was converted to V. S. Zaykov yperite [43] (803 and 14,905 metric tons respectively). Up until the end of the war, the production was 18,630 metric tons in 1943, 10,335 metric tons in 1944, and 2730 metric tons in 1945. Production of yperite at "Kaprolaktam" Production Association continued for many years after the war was over, and, after the end of the 1950's, on a continual basis [39, 82]. The same plant made lewisite (shops No 14 and 15), of which 15,900 metric tons were produced [11,36, 69]. Prussic acid was produced and charged into chemical munitions at two Dzerzhinsk plants: "Rulon" (plant No 148, which went into production in 1939, and is today "Orgsteklo" Production Association), and M. I. Kalinin Chemical Plant in Chernorechenskiy (ChKhZ, which today is "Korund" Production Association) [36]. Phosgene production in Dzerzhinsk was set up at ChKhZ, and was carried out throughout the war. The status of accident prevention at "Kaprolaktam" Production Association can be judged from the following: in 1942 in special shops alone there were 1585 cases of occupational illness, and in the other shops (which were also hazardous)--112. There were two reasons for the turnover of personnel near the front lines. In addition to the obvious technological reason, there was also an organizational reason: the special shops suffered from an acute shortage of protective clothing [69]. Purification of air contaminated by yperite was ineffective at "Kaprolaktam" Production Association, and there was considerable entrainment of alkali into the atmosphere along with incompletely decontaminated yperite. Contamination of air with yperite during the war spread over a radius of 507 km from the plant. Originally there was no exclusion zone, and none had been established by the early sixties. The plant was essentially encircled by residential settlements: to the north was the settlement of Krasnyy Khimik at a distance of 1090 m, to the south the settlement of Lyakhanovka 1800 m away, and to the west the settlements of Pionerskiy and Avariynyy (1060 and 1010 m respectively). Pollution of the atmosphere of residential settlements of "Orgsteklo" Production Association was due to emissions of prussic acid. These emissions were not effectively purified. It was not until 1967 that the Dzerzhinsk municipal sanitation- epidemiological station undertook a study of pollution of atmospheric air. The greatest pollution of atmospheric air with such toxic agents as phosgene and prussic acid was observed 500-1000 m from the plants, and contamination with more specific ingredients was observed at a distance of 2500-3000 m. Discharge of waste waters of chemical enterprises of Dzerzhinsk in the years of intensive production of TC provided for passage from industrial sites into the Oka River through a system of seven lakes along the Volosyanikha River that were used as a settling system. Recycling of industrial wastes by storage was a problem because the ground in Dzerzhinsk is sandy. Not only that, the land of this city is typically cavernous.
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5_Zvehzda Just Starting Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 1	Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:53 am    Post subject: Here's a compelling site - about Chernobyl, it's a little eerie . . . http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
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Skip Talk Show Host Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 283 Location: Planet Warez	Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:07 am    Post subject: 5_Zvehzda wrote: Here's a compelling site - about Chernobyl, it's a little eerie . . . Let me get this right... YOUR contribution amounts to a hyperlink that leads to a story about some asshole who impersonates Evil Kneevil by riding his bike through the Chernobyl powerplant to clock up a few extra REM's... What can I say ??? More of the same urgently needed, both here, and for all other areas of the forum as well... or perhaps NOT!
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