’Mailbox 200’: Soviet waste dump a landslide away from poisoning millions - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kyrgyzstan-environment-nuclear-waste-idUSKBN1XF10W
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Neglected for decades by the Soviet Union and then #Kyrgyzstan, uranium ore dumps near the town of Mailuu-Suu must be urgently reinforced to prevent disaster, according to the European Commission and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) which are raising funds for the project.
“There are 14 million people in the Ferghana valley and in the event of a natural disaster water may wash away the tailings into the Naryn (Syr Darya) river which will be a tragedy for the whole valley,” says Bolotbek Karimov, an environment researcher based in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh.
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