Techa River
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The Techa River is a tributary of the Iset River. The river is about 240 km long. The river Techa belongs to the Iset-Tobol-Irtysh-Ob system, which runs out into the Kara Sea[1]. For over six years, the Mayak complex systematically dumped radioactive waste into the Techa River.[2] At the time of the radioactive pollution there were 40 villages on the river with a resident population about 28,000.[3] In the past 45 years, about half a million people in the region have been irradiated in one or more of the incidents, exposing them to as much as 20 times the radiation suffered by the Chernobyl victims.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ River Techa
- ^ CHELYABINSK "The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet" - a documentary film by Slawomir Grunberg - Log In Productions - distributed by LogTV LTD
- ^ techa_cor.htm
- ^ CHELYABINSK "The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet" - a documentary film by Slawomir Grunberg - Log In Productions - distributed by LogTV LTD
[edit] See also
- Chernobyl disaster
- International Nuclear Events Scale
- List of civilian nuclear accidents
- List of military nuclear accidents
- List of nuclear reactors
- Nuclear and radiation accidents
- Nuclear contamination
- Nuclear meltdown
- Nuclear safety
- Nuclear power
- Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Radiation
- Radioactive contamination
- Radioactive waste
- Reprocessed uranium
- Three Mile Island accident
- United States military nuclear incident terminology
- Windscale fire
