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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 6 No 2 of Karintorf will depend in many ways on measurements of the concentration of radon in the homes and an evaluation of their health. And for the time being, radiation monitoring has been established in regard to food products, drinking water and the gamma-background of both settlements belonging to the enterprise in Karintorf. 29. "'Volga in a Ring of Nuclear Power Plants,'" by Professor S. Butkov, chairman of the department of economic and social geography of the Ulyanovsk Pedagogical Institute 30. The Kalinin, Kostroma, Gorkiy, Tatar, Bashkir, Dimitrovgrad and Balakov nuclear power plants are operating, under construction or planned for construction in the Volga-Kama basin. 31. The Scientific Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) has been working in the city of Dimitrovgrad since 1961. It contains eight reactors, of which five are scientific and three are semi-industrial. Seven reactors are in operation. The output of the nuclear power plant is 440,000 kilowatts. The NIIAR has 16 permanent observation posts, including two in Ulyanovsk. Radioactive wastes are pumped into the ground to a depth of 1,100-1,500 m. A high-temperature reactor to be used to process depleted fuel was to be built in this city as well. The reactor needed around 100,000 tonnes of high-quality graphite. Its erection would have cost approximately a billion rubles' worth of foreign currency. Because we do not have the needed quantity of graphite and the corresponding amount of money, the reactor was rejected. 32. Radioactive neutron sources will be produced in Dimitrovgrad jointly with the Chinese Atomic Energy Institute. The Chinese side intends to supply the products to countries in Asia and the Near East. The 'radioactive dirt'' will remain in Russia. 33. In order to replenish the continually growing shortage of electric and thermal energy, scientists propose erecting an experimental industrial unit of a new generation on the grounds of the NIIAR in place of the reactor facility being decommissioned. Its output would be 620,000 kilowatts of electric power and up to 215 gigacalories of thermal energy per hour. 34. Some of the nuclear power plants in the Volga region were built on ground that is unsuitable in geological respects, and even simply dangerous, often in direct proximity to active faults, and at the intersections of river systems, where an abundance of water is observed. Consequently we risk a misfortune on the Volga that would be dozens of times more terrible than Chernobyl.
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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.