NPR has a lengthy and detailed story dated Feburary 5, 2008 by its Russian field agent Ivan Watson on the heaps of radioactive waste that the Soviet Union left in the town of Mailuu-Suu in Kyrgyzstan. Its residents "are accustomed to living next to radioactive waste. Some locals even joke that they need radiation to survive."
Who knows; perhaps the old stories of the 1950s about exposure to radiation producing horrible mutants that terrorize villages at night and eat babies will be true. More likely it will result in huge groundwater contamination and dozens of slow deaths by cancer.
11 July 2008
Still higher tensions between Georgia and Russia
What's behind this? Separatism is strong in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as previously discussed on this blog and Russia media sources. Georgia accused Russia of "sending fighter jets into its airspace to undermine a visit by American Secretary of State Rice" this past Wednesday, July 9, and then recalled its ambassador to Russia on July 10. Interesting times...Publish Post
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