A Tiny Town Was the Soviet Union’s Uranium Hub. Now, It’s …
WEBNov 22, 2021 — Travkina, who doubles as a local historian, has been working with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to establish a uranium museum in Mailuu-Suu, hoping to attract tourism to the town. She and other residents insist that characterizations of their region as a radioactive wasteland are wrong.
Kyrgyz Town Lives with Radioactive Soviet Legacy - NPR
WEBFeb 5, 2008 — Radioactive warning signs poke out from the snow covering radioactive waste dump No. 8. There are 23 sites like this around Mailuu-Suu, and Kyrgyz officials warn their underground...
Mailuu-Suu: Cleaning up Central Asia’s toxic uranium legacy
WEBSep 3, 2020 — Scientists at the Institute of Medical Problems, Southern Branch of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, have been investigating the radioactive contamination in the town of Mailuu-Suu since 1994.
Mailuu-Suu - NUCLEAR-RISKS
WEBThe former uranium mining town of Mailuu-Suu is notorious for its insecure radioactive waste rock heaps and tailings dumps in tectonically unstable hillsides.
Cleaning Up a Toxic Legacy: Environmental Remediation of Former Uranium ...
WEBSep 27, 2016 — Progress and lessons learned in Mailuu-Suu Landslides, flooding and the possible failure of containment barriers are also a concern at the Mailuu-Suu site, which houses a significant amount of residual radioactive contaminants.
How drones are helping monitor Kyrgyzstan’s radioactive legacy
WEBNov 10, 2022 — Above the town of Mailuu Suu in western Kyrgyzstan, the International Atomic Energy Agency is flying drones to monitor for radiation. For 22 years, from 1946 to 1968, people in Mailuu Suu...
Kyrgyz Raise Red Flags Over Radioactive Threat - Radio Free …
WEBNov 10, 2019 — The mountains around the Kyrgyz town of Mailuu-Suu contain vast stores of radioactive waste left by decades of uranium mining. Locals say the current threat of radiation is significant but is...
Remediation of Kyrgyz uranium legacy site to start
WEBRadioactive substances are currently stored in 23 tailings ponds (total volume about 2 million cubic metres) and 13 mining debris heaps (total volume about 0.9 million cubic metres) situated along the Mailuu-Suu River, which feeds into the Syr Darya River.
Remediation works to begin at largest uranium legacy site in the …
WEBMay 16, 2023 — Mailuu-Suu, one of the largest and most heavily contaminated uranium legacy sites in Central Asia, will be remediated thanks to the allocation of grant funding from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA), managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The Kyrgyz City Built On Nuclear Waste - Radio Free …
WEBJun 21, 2017 — Parts of Mailuu-Suu, in Kyrgyzstan, stand on nuclear waste dumps -- a toxic legacy from local uranium mines that kept the Soviet nuclear program going. Radiation and heavy metals seeping into...