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nightmarish vision on a beautiful day: explosion of a dirty bomb & bld. anspach goes nuclear
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Article quoted from Reuters, UK
(today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&...):
Nuclear waste found in ruined Chechen factory
Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:17 AM GMT
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Investigators have found nuclear contamination tens of thousands of times above safe levels on the premises of a ruined factory in Russia's Chechnya, officials said on Saturday.
Other Chechen officials did not wish to comment on the presence of the radioactive material, which was named by the prosecutors as Cobalt-60 -- a variation of cobalt used as a source of radiation in food processing, hospitals and elsewhere.
"This is not a one-day problem. This problem of radiation leaking into Grozny's air has been going on for a decade," said a member of Chechnya's emergencies committee who asked not to be named. He said looters had uncovered the materials.
There was no suggestion the radioactive materials could fall into the hands of Chechen militants, although Cobalt-60 has been identified as one of the most likely elements to be used to make a so-called "dirty bomb"
nightmarish vision on a beautiful day: explosion of a dirty bomb & bld. anspach goes nuclear
CROSS-PROCESSED
subconscious fears we constantly live with
click here for the right size.
cross- and post-processed nikon f-80 shot;
Article quoted from Reuters, UK
(today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&...):
Nuclear waste found in ruined Chechen factory
Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:17 AM GMT
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Investigators have found nuclear contamination tens of thousands of times above safe levels on the premises of a ruined factory in Russia's Chechnya, officials said on Saturday.
Other Chechen officials did not wish to comment on the presence of the radioactive material, which was named by the prosecutors as Cobalt-60 -- a variation of cobalt used as a source of radiation in food processing, hospitals and elsewhere.
"This is not a one-day problem. This problem of radiation leaking into Grozny's air has been going on for a decade," said a member of Chechnya's emergencies committee who asked not to be named. He said looters had uncovered the materials.
There was no suggestion the radioactive materials could fall into the hands of Chechen militants, although Cobalt-60 has been identified as one of the most likely elements to be used to make a so-called "dirty bomb"