Seems that here we have another shining example of how
"science marches on."
Jaro
frantaj@aecl.ca
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From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET]
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Kazakh
nuclear woes remain a decade after closure
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Kazakh nuclear woes
remain a decade after closure
ALMATY, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A decade after
Kazakhstan shut the
Semipalatinsk nuclear complex, one of the Soviet Union's
two test
sites, a raft of health and environmental problems are still
being
felt, the Kazakh President said on Tuesday.
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Robert Sagdeyev, director of the centre
for space research at
Kazakhstan's East-West Institute, told the meeting
the consequences
of the "nuclear madness"
were still visible now.
"Recently we have discovered rather strange anomalies in
the
temperature in this (Semipalatinsk) region. The temperature is
about
10 degrees higher than expected. We first noticed this in 1997,
but
now this has become a permanent phenomenon."
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....no doubt as the fifty-year-old fallout decays away, the temperature will keep increasing, huh ?
...maybe they should also survey the terrain in the area -- the earth might be getting flatter !