SLOW PROGRESS STARTS TO BE MADE ON SECURING KYRGYZSTAN’S URANIUM WASTE LEGACY
April 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE
THE PROBLEM of what to do with Kyrgyzstan's depleted uranium problem has been passed around the international community for more than two decades, but it now looks like some degree of remediation action is set to take place.
Uranium dumps are a legacy of the country's role in the nuclear industry of the former Soviet Union of which it was once a constituent republic. The dumps were created between 1958 to 1969. The uranium mined from the country also made the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb.
Although uranium is radioactive, with radium and radon ...
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