Techa River

The Techa River is a tributary of the Iset River. The river is about 240 km long. The river Techa belongs to the Iset-Tobol-Irtysh-Ob system, which runs out into the Kara Sea [ [http://www.rdc.gov.lv/nucpedia/uk/river.htm River Techa ] ] . For over six years, the Mayak complex systematically dumped radioactive waste into the Techa River. [ [http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/ CHELYABINSK "The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet" - a documentary film by Slawomir Grunberg - Log In Productions - distributed by LogTV LTD ] ] At the time of the radioactive pollution there were 40 villages on the river with a resident population about 28,000. [ [http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/publications/pp747/techa_cor.htm techa_cor.htm ] ] In the past 45 years, about half a million people in the region have been irradiated in one or more of the incidents, exposing them to as much as 20 times the radiation suffered by the Chernobyl disaster victims. [ [http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/ CHELYABINSK "The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet" - a documentary film by Slawomir Grunberg - Log In Productions - distributed by LogTV LTD ] ]

References

See also

*Chernobyl disaster
*International Nuclear Events Scale
*List of civilian nuclear accidents
*List of military nuclear accidents
*List of nuclear reactors
*Nuclear and radiation accidents
*Nuclear contamination
*Nuclear meltdown
*Nuclear safety
*Nuclear power
*Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
*Radiation
*Radioactive contamination
*Radioactive waste
*Reprocessed uranium
*Three Mile Island accident
*United States military nuclear incident terminology
*Windscale fire

External links

* [http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/index.htm CHELYABINSK : The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet? A film by Slawomir Grunberg]
* [http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/publications/pp747/techa_cor.htm Harvard research page with good information Radioactive Contamination of the Techa River and its Effects, Dmitriy Burmistrov, Mira Kossenko and Richard Wilson]