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