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Radiation in Chelyabinsk, Russia

Reply from the Ministry of Radiation and Environmental Safety of Chelyabinsk region, 16.02.2011 № 841/СМ  

Translation from Russian to English

Dear Elena,

Your address to the website of Administration of Chelyabinsk from 14.12.2010 № 6621/10 was considered by the Ministry of Radiation and Environmental Safety of Chelyabinsk region.

You’re right – some biased information in the media about the radiation situation in  Chelyabinsk region has formed a stable image of a nuclear waste dump in South Ural.

In the northern part of the territory of our region there are indeed some problems generated by the past activities of Mayak plant but they are successfully being solved within the framework of federal and regional special-purpose programs as well as environmental ones.

In the region there is a constant radiation monitoring, Continue reading ‘Radiation in Chelyabinsk, Russia’