South Eastern Europe to Central Asia: political transition and environmental risks

The graphic maps out the areas that are at risk, or already contaminated from nuclear industry after the break-up of the former Soviet Union. Nuclear power has unresolved problems of waste disposal. Waste remains dangerous for thousands of human generations and can be converted to plutonium, a component of nuclear weapons. The mining of nuclear…

  • Produced by:
    Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
  • Year:
    11/02/2006

South Eastern Europe to Central Asia: political transition and environmental risks

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