Radioactive Hell. Anne Imse.
by Imse, Anne; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 45Environment. Publisher: Rocky Mountain News, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Nuclear weapons -- Soviet Union | Nuclear weapons plants | Racism | Radiation injuries | Radioactive pollution | Radioactive waste disposal -- Russia (Federation) | Radioactivity -- Physiological effectDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Once numbering several thousand, Tatar Karabolka's population has withered to about 600. The school is down to 61 students. Another 20 children are too sick to attend. The town has just opened its eighth cemetery. And the villagers who still live here grapple with terrible illnesses--diabetes, heart disease, digestive ailments--often all at once. Bodies simply waste away." (ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) This article profiles Russia's Mayak nuclear weapons plant, while identifying the ailments that plague Russian villagers who have been "stricken by fallout" from the "once-secret nuclear weapons plant."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Radioactive Hell, Feb. 22, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Once numbering several thousand, Tatar Karabolka's population has withered to about 600. The school is down to 61 students. Another 20 children are too sick to attend. The town has just opened its eighth cemetery. And the villagers who still live here grapple with terrible illnesses--diabetes, heart disease, digestive ailments--often all at once. Bodies simply waste away." (ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) This article profiles Russia's Mayak nuclear weapons plant, while identifying the ailments that plague Russian villagers who have been "stricken by fallout" from the "once-secret nuclear weapons plant."
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