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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 24. The settlement of Karintorf, near Kirovo-Chepetskiy, which was founded by peat diggers back before the war, discovered that it neighbored upon a uranium deposit. 25. Of course the concentration of uranium in the ore is negligible, but the settlement's inhabitants do have grounds for concern. 26. ''They knew about the uranium since the 1960s, and they kept silent about it for 30 years, and they would have continued to keep silent about it as long as nothing went wrong. And in the meantime we became something like experimental rabbits: They take blood samples, make some sort of immunizations, and hang dosimeters in our homes,' Aleksandr Sabrekov, the settlement's commandant, complained with irritation. 27. The deposit is located only 2 or 3 kilometers from a residential area. Before, there used to be peat digs here, while now there is a field overgrown with brush. When I turned on my instrument, the pointer fluctuated between 6 and 8 microroentgens. As we moved off the road the pointer reached the 10 mark. On a thawed patch of dead grass it jumped to 15 R/hr. This was as high as it went. Wherever I turned, and wherever I lowered my ``mine detector,'' the pointer never rose above this mark. Does it make sense to raze settlement No 2 of Karintorf, as recommended by associates of the All-Russian Geological Scientific Research Institute imeni Karpinskiy, who surveyed the uranium deposit? By the way, in response to them, a report by V. G. Dvernitskiy, a scientist from the St. Petersburg radioecological department, and E. Ya. Yakhnin, a prominent geochemist with Sevzaapekologiya, referred to this conclusion as ``surprising.'' They feel that the ``recommendation (regarding the razing of settlement No 2-V.A.) cannot be taken seriously, and it does not provide any grounds for stopping life as usual in the settlement.'' Another review of the research by the geologists came from Moscow. It was written by scientists of the department of radiation hygiene of the Central Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians-Professor V. Ya. Golikov, a member of the Russian Scientific Commission on Radiation Safety, and docent S. I. Ivanov. ``We feel that the conclusions and suggestions spelled out by the authors in paragraph 3 of the conclusions (the reference is to razing settlement No 2-V.A.) are unsubstantiated and deeply wrong.'' 28. Specialists of the oblast's center for state public health inspection, who had doubts about the validity of the conclusions of the geologists and who sent their report out for review, turned out to be right: The danger was exaggerated, and there was no reason to move the inhabitants. But experts can vary in their opinions, and perhaps it wouldn't hurt to take another look. The fate of settlement
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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.