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Mayak Region
General views of the Mayak region in Russia, the most radioactively contaminated place on earth; illustrating the impact of radioactive pollution on the environment and inhabitants of the Chelyabinsk County surrounding the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in the Southern Urals, approximately 2000 km east of Moscow. Includes deformed fetuses in preserved jars. The museum of embryology has a morbid looking collection of embryos and foetusses, life that never came into being. Professor Gennady Vasilievich Brukhin explains: "Most frequently, environmental circumstances are to blame". Some of the embryos have abnormalities typical for the effects of radiation. There is a child that was born without separated legs, a condition, professor Brukhin explains, "that looks like the mermaid from Andersen's fairy tale". People in Mulomovo speak of children that were born, looking like "fish". One of the other foetusses has "panther skin" where bone-like tissue forms on the skin. "These were from the area bordering the Techa River", says Gennady Brukhin. The women in the villages around the area claim they all have to give birth in one state-supervised clinic. They say that when a child is still born, it is taken away from them and they never get to see it.
Unique identifier:
GP03U52
Old Image ID:
3506785C
Type:
Video
Ranking:
★★★★
Duration:
1m16s
Size:
768px × 576px 119MB
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Babies (0-2)
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Birds
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Cattle
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Children
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Day
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Death
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Greenpeace campaigners
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KWCI (GPI)
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Local population
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Mayak Nuclear Complex
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Museums
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Nuclear (campaign title)
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Nuclear radiation
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Outdoors
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Radiation measurement
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Radiation measurement tools
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Radiation victims
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Signs