Re: Kazakh nuclear woes remain a decade after closure

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Jaro, they don't dare conduct any new surveys of the terrain - the

survey crews might fall off the edge .... (g)

maury@webtexas.com

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"Franta, Jaroslav" wrote:



> Seems that here we have another shining example of how "science

> marches on."

> Jaro

> frantaj@aecl.ca

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET]

> Sent: Tuesday August 28, 2001 10:50 AM

> To: nuclear news list

> Subject:

>

> <SNIP>

> Kazakh nuclear woes remain a decade after closure

> <SNIP>

> ----------------

>

> 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.

> <SNIP>

>

> 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."

> <SNIP>

>

> ....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 !



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