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A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: March 31, 2006
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Regional Administration of Civil Defense Agency and Emergency Situations department can not estimate the exact amount of leakage, a size of polluted territory and the content of the liquid. The Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage has sampled the liquid and would announce the results later.
By preliminary estimations, about 10 tons of residual oil polluted the Yenisei River. Authorities of Krasnoyarsk started investigation of the accident. Environmentalists claim the accident is the biggest pollution for the recent years, Interfax reported. Inspectors of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage are searching for the company-polluter.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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