Russian village huge human nuclear experiment - Mayak, the Kyshtym Disaster

[Shallah Kali]

Run time: 03:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1wo5s3Ua4   Posted on YouTube: September 05, 2007 By YouTube Member: A1Huxley Views on YouTube: 192597   Posted on DU: March 19, 2011 By DU Member: Shallah Kali Views on DU: 1079

 
Video from Sky News:

Russia's Nuclear Village Of The Damned
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/video/Russias-Nuclear-Village-Of-The-Damned/Video/200709114165105?lpos=video_Article_Related_Content_Region_1&lid=VIDEO_14165105_Russias_Nuclear_Village_Of_The_Damned

A remote Russian village, the scene of a nuclear accident 50 years ago, is at the centre of a battle between an green campaign group and the Kremlin, which has been accused of environmental genocide. Sky's Alex Rossi has been to the village of the damned.

Russia Facing Action Over Nuclear Villagers
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Russia-Facing-Action-Over-Nuclear-Villagers/Article/20070911282749?lpos=Home_Article_Body_Copy_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_1282749_Russia_Facing_Action_Over_Nuclear_Villagers

A green organisation is taking legal action against the Russian government over what it claims is environmental genocide.

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Milya Kabirova tests radiation levels

Citizen has accused the authorities of systematically ignoring the plight of thousands of villagers living near the country's largest nuclear waste processing plant.

Many of them have developed serious illnesses as a result of radiation poisoning in the Chelyabinsk region near the Ural Mountains.

In the village of Musluymovo hundreds of people have succumbed to radiation sickness.

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak

Kyshtym Disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_Disaster

[Lucinda]

1. :(

Depressing...but I am glad I saw it. Thank you.

[Liberty Belle]

2. I hadn't seen this before - it's important; thanks for posting.

kicking and recommending. :kick:

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. That's pretty horrible

Although I bet Rush Limbaugh would find it very amusing.

What's the fucking use of a multi-generational study on radiation poisoning? Do they actually think they're going to learn anything beneficial or even useful from this? Do they expect to come up with a treatment for it? The best treatment I can think of is not exposing people to that shit in the first place.

Hell just called. They're building a new wing on the Dr. Mengele building.

[Shallah Kali]

4. #*$(&# - Russia uses it to dump foreign nuclear waste too

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/22/5512008-russians-in-the-town-of-muslyumovo-suffer-from-long-term-nuclear-contamination

Alik Nuryshev, 20, a local resident suffering from childhood disability, including epilepsy and cerebral palsy, sits in his house in the village of Muslyumovo, Nov. 18, 2010. The village is located on the banks of the Techa River in Russia's Urals, one of the country's most lethal nuclear dumping grounds. The Mayak nuclear complex, located 18 miles from Muslyumovo, currently processes foreign radioactive waste, and it dumped 2.68 billion cubic feet of highly radioactive waste into the river from 1949 to 1956.

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them." ~Albert Einstein

[TheMadMonk]

6. Not to downplay the danger of radioactivity, I do have to ask...

...how much of the illness is directly atributable to radiation and how much might be due to heavy metal toxicity?

Don't get me wrong it's bad news either way.

But there's a fuck load of hypocrisy in demonising one industrial pollutant above all others, and in doing so for a reason which may have little to do with the manner in that pollutant is doing damage in this case. Moreso, when it is easily demonstrable that many other pollutants have a far greater actual negative impact than radioactives.

Whole towns and their surrounds have been wiped out by mines, asbestos and lead probably leading the pack. Most are just footnotes in history, few attract any great comment at all.

Petrochemical pollution in Africa? Thousands, if not tens of thousands are dying anually and the response from the rest of the world amounts to bugger all despite the best efforts of a noisy few.

Contrast it with the effort spent to detect even the slightest (pico-curie/m3) amount of contamination from Fukushima.

Um, what's the latest story on the tailings spill in the Balkans BTW?