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Accidents
Children
Local population
Nuclear (campaign title)
Portraits
Radiation effects
Radiation victims
Children at School - Tomsk-7 Victims Documentation (Russia: 2005)
Students have their pictures taken in Naumovka, Russia on the start of the new school year. The village was contaminated in the 1993 Tomsk-7 accident. It was never evacuated. Research has clearly shown that it had serious health effects on the local population. Many inhabitants of cities surrounding the Siberian Group of Chemical Enterprises and its workers have fallen ill. The SGCE is located in the closed city of Seversk and has had over 35 accidents in four decades. The town, once called Tomsk-7, was a secret city until 1992 and did not appear on official maps. The city still remains closed to non-residents. The last major accident took place in 1993. An explosion destroyed part of a reprocessing facility and an area of 200 square kilometers was contaminated with radioactive materials, resulting in evacuations and ongoing devastation. Radioactive materials from Europe are still processed by the SGCE and additional contamination stems from deliberate dumping of highly radioactive waste in the Tom River.
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Limited Copyright Period
Unique identifier:
GP0IXX
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
09/01/2005
Locations:
Eastern Europe
,
Naumovka
,
Russian Federation
,
Tomsk Oblast
Credit line:
© Robert Knoth / Greenpeace
Size:
7280px × 4743px 10MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Copyright Valid Until
31/01/2031
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Tomsk-7 Victims Documentation (Russia: 2005)
Many inhabitants of cities surrounding the Siberian Group of Chemical Enterprises and its workers have fallen ill. The SGCE is located in the closed city of Seversk and has had over 35 accidents in four decades. The town, once called Tomsk-7, was a secret city until 1992 and did not appear on official maps. The city still remains closed to non-residents. The last major accident took place in 1993. An explosion destroyed part of a reprocessing facility and an area of 200 square kilometers was contaminated with radioactive materials, resulting in evacuations and ongoing devastation. Radioactive materials from Europe are still processed by the SGCE and additional contamination stems from deliberate dumping of highly radioactive waste in the Tom River.
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