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This 11 June 1993 JPRS translation, released by the Central Intelligence Agency, covers reader letters that the Moscow newspaper Rossiyskiye Vesti printed for its Operation Radiation. That campaign gathered public reports of radioactive contamination. The letters cover harm from nuclear weapons production in the Urals and a uranium deposit near the Karintorf settlement. They also warn about nuclear power plants along the Volga. One letter looks at rumors of an accident at Tomsk-7 that were traced to mediums, clairvoyants and claimed telepathic contact with aliens. It also mentions UFO researchers who forecast an accident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.
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Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1993 Document 19 of 19 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Document Date: 11 Jun 93 Report Type: JPRS report Report Number: JPRS-TEN-93-019 Status: [STAT] Category: [CAT] Report Date: UDC Number: Headline: Readers Cite Instances of Radioactive Pollution Source Line: 93WN0465B Moscow ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI in Russian 11 Jun 93 p4 Subslug: [Articles contributed to Operation ''Radiation''] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Articles contributed to Operation ''Radiation''] 2. [Text] We have received the first responses from readers and public ecological organizations to the appeal by ''Retsept'' to establish a complete bank of information on past and possible instances of radioactive contamination of the environment (ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI, No 96). Operation ''Radiation'' is continuing. We are interested in eye-witness accounts of the burial of radioactive wastes, of accidents at nuclear facilities and installations, and of cases of careless storage and misappropriation of radioactive materials. These communications allow us to conduct publicly open monitoring of the radiation situation in the country, attracting the attention of the corresponding state bodies and the public to these problems. 3. ''People Must Not Be Forced to Live in a Nuclear Home,'' by N. Mironova, coordinator of the ''Nuclear Safety'' movement, Chelyabinsk 4. It is difficult to overstate the importance of the problem raised by ''Retsept.'" May God grant you the strength to take a sufficient number of steps along this road before someone forces you to stop. 5. The things that were done by the Ministry of Atomic Power and the Ministry of Health in the Urals can be compared only with Stalinist genocide. The criminal actions against morality and humanity committed here are just as serious as those addressed in Nuremberg. But there is little time to be digging into the past, because the present is even more dangerous and significantly more responsible for the effects it has upon the future. 6. Mountains of weapons have been forged in our country, and they are now playing an increasingly active role in ''hot spots'' in Russia. Obviously the critical mass has been exceeded. God forbid that this wave will engulf our nuclear potential.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.