Radiation alert at Chechen plant - Democratic Underground

emad

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Fri Dec-16-05 12:03 PM
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Radiation alert at Chechen plant

Prosecutors in Chechnya have opened a criminal investigation after finding "catastrophic" levels of radioactivity at a chemical factory.

Investigators say the radiation - in one place reportedly 58,000 times the usual level - poses a danger to people in the region's capital, Grozny.

The case has also raised fears militants could take radioactive waste to use in a so-called "dirty bomb".

The plant has reportedly not been secured since Russia bombed it in 1999.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4535452.stm

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hatrack

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Fri Dec-16-05 12:04 PM
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1. As they said on the Challenger's voice recorder. . . .

"Uh-oh".

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Bluerthanblue

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Fri Dec-16-05 02:17 PM
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2. i'm not surprised, when

they said late last night that the 'radiation levels were normal'- twice in a short news blurb- what they failed to say was that there was NO contamination- The ratidation levels are probably still 'normal' somewhere in the smelter- but the contaminated areas may be registering very high levels of 'normal radiation'-

This world has become a word game-

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NickB79

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Fri Dec-16-05 03:03 PM
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3. This is in a different city than the explosion

This radiation leak was caused by improperly stored nuclear waste, while there was an explosion at a smelter at the other one.

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Bluerthanblue

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Fri Dec-16-05 03:40 PM
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4. oh geez,

wierd that it suddenly becomes news on the heels of the 'smelter' accident???

Thanks for the clarification. Not very re-assuring, but something that should be exposed.-
What in the world are we doing to this planet???

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