{"id":25246,"date":"2016-04-30T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/russias-nuclear-nightmare-flows-down-radioactive-river"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:07:44","slug":"russias-nuclear-nightmare-flows-down-radioactive-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/russias-nuclear-nightmare-flows-down-radioactive-river","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s nuclear nightmare flows down radioactive river"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia\u2019s ongoing nuclear fallout challenges.<\/p>\n

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MUSLYUMOVO, Russia (AP) \u2014 At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime\u2019s exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as a reporter strolls down to the muddy riverbank.<\/p>\n

Some 50 kilometers (30 miles) upstream from Dambaev\u2019s crumbling village lies Mayak, a nuclear complex that has been responsible for at least two of the country\u2019s biggest radioactive accidents. Worse, environmentalists say, is the facility\u2019s decades-old record of using the Arctic-bound waters of the Techa River to dump waste from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, hundreds of tons of which is imported annually from neighboring nations.<\/p>\n

The results can be felt in every aching household along the Techa, where doctors record rates of chromosomal abnormalities, birth defects and cancers vastly higher than the Russian average \u2014 and citizens such as Dambaev are left to rue the government\u2019s failure over four decades to admit the danger.<\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s ongoing nuclear fallout challenges. MUSLYUMOVO, Russia (AP) \u2014 At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime\u2019s exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-habitats","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42194,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions\/42194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}