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Impact of radioactive waste on remote communities in Russia

Russian atomic waste endangers the people and environment of far north,  EnerPub – Energy Publisher, April 25, 2010by Paul A. Goble The dying off of the numerically small peoples of the Russian north, already taking place because of economic development and climate change, is being accelerated by the mishandling of nuclear materials at power stations and military bases in that region and especially by the lack of secure storage facilities for nuclear wastes there.
In a study of this problem published this week, Sergey Rykov says that the impact of radiation on the lives of these nationalities is so great that it is time to think about creating a Red Book not just for animals and plants but for threatened and now disappearing peoples like the Yukagirs, the Ens, and the Negidals, each of which numbers fewer than 1,000 people.

Many people have written about the way in which the economic development of the Russian North and climate changes have affected these peoples in a negative way, Rykov says, but few have focused on the ways in which radioactive materials are killing off these peoples (www.stoletie.ru/obschestvo/my_zhivem_na_jadernoj_po

Russian atomic waste endangers the people and environment of far north | EnerPub – Energy Publisher

April 26, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, plutonium, radiation, reactors, uranium