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Fergana Valley, Central Asia: A nuclear time bomb

 
Accident on uranium waste site Mayluu-Suu in 1958
Cattle grazing on abandoned thorium tailings impoundment in Ak-Tyuz
Fencing of a tailing dump
Inside a uranium mine, Mayluu-Suu
Izolit factory, former uranium refinery, destroyed by a land-slide
Mayluu-Suu River partly covered by a landslide in 1999
Nuclear Clondike
Nuclear waste dump near city limits
Radioactive metal scrap collector
Radioactive water leaking to Ak-Tyuz River through a crack in a tailings impoundment
Tailing ponds 3 and 9 next to slopes with potential landslides, Mayluu-Suu
Tailing dump
Tailing ponds 5 and 7 in Mayluu-Suu
Typical tailing impoundment in the mountain environment