Kazakhstan 2008 Nuclear Waste
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Kazakhstan. Sarzhal. Muslim graveyard with half-moon signs from the time of former Soviet Union. The village of Sarzhal is near the Semipalatinsk Polygon ( called today National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan). The deceased man (commit suicide) is a third generation victim of the 456 atomic testing - 116 atmospheric, 340 underground - from 1949 to 1989. The regions high frequency of deaths is primarily due to fallout from nearby nuclear test sites. The dead man shows the human and...
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