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Ex-Soviet Union had 385 radioactive accidents: Tass
Ex-Soviet Union had 385 radioactive accidents: Tass
MOSCOW, Dec. 19 (Kyodo) - Nuclear facilities in Russia and other
former Soviet republics experienced 385 radioactive accidents during
the Soviet era and 56 workers were killed from radioactive exposure,
Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said Tuesday.
The agency, citing testimony held earlier in the day at the Duma,
Russia's parliament, said Russia's Nuclear Energy Ministry is still
investigating possible radioactive contamination inside the Russian
Federation.
The Nuclear Energy Ministry, which presented the data on radioactive
accidents to the Duma, said several cases of radioactive accidents
have been reported after 1993, but none of the accidents affected
local residents.
The casualty figures cited by the Nuclear Energy Ministry apparently
do not include victims who died from long-term aftereffects of
radiation such as the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
According to the Russian Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies and
Clean-Up Operations, more than 55,000 people have died from
aftereffects of radiation after an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear
plant in April 1986 spewed a massive amount of radiation into the
air.
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