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18 Comments on Presentation on Industrial Nuclear Explosion Sites in the Russian Federation: Recovery and Institutional Monitoring Problems--Don J. Bradley
Pages 121-126

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... According to Russian documents, there were 124 peaceful nuclear explosions, all underground, with 117 of them being conducted outside the nuclear test site boundaries (Semipalatinsk and Novaya Zemlya)
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... . The former Soviet Union's PNE testing program had stronger support, and paralleled the themes of intended uses as seen in the United States, specifically, • Experiments to develop craters and move earth (such as the PechoraKama rivers canal and the village of Udachny in Yakutia-Sakha, and the Chagan River valley in Semipalatinsk Oblast)
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... a b c d g e f h i k l j r s o m n Underground Nuclear Blasts Individual nuclear explosions q Series of explosions p Key to Cities a Murmansk h Chelyabinsk o Semipalatinsk b Riga i Khabarovsk p Tashkent c St. Petersburg j Novosibirsk q Almaty d Minsk k Tomsk r Chita e Kiev l Krasnoyarsk s Irkutsk f Moscow m Vladivostok g Yakutsk n Baku FIGURE 18-1  Map of peaceful nuclear explosions in the former Soviet Union (FSU)
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... For underground nuclear test areas, other important steps are as follows (National Research Council, 2000) : • A regional groundwater flow model should be developed, which will provide the initial basis for determining the magnitude of health risks.
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... 4. While it appears that the authors have looked at remediation options, the issues of surface contamination at PNE sites closely parallels remediation work done both in the United States and in Russia on uranium mill tailings sites.
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... Minneapolis: Eastview Publications. National Research Council, Committee on the Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes.
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