(December 3, 1993) Amidst many other shocking revelations concerning nuclear waste dumping by the former Soviet Union, a little known case is the uranium mining area around Lovozero - the nearby mining town of Revda has 12,000 residents - on the Kola Peninsula.
(403.3924) WISE Amsterdam - With operations beginning in 1948 and continuing into this year, Lovozero scandalized the local population in 1988 by using mine tailings to build roads, and by agreeing in 1991 to dump uranium processing wastes from Estonia into the open-pit Lovozero mines.
We have also received a lengthy tech-nical analysis from our contributor Peter Diehl concerning the oncoming contamination of the drinking water supply of the Hungarian city of Pecs by uranium mill tailings. The tailings ponds at the Mecsekurn Ltd. mill were constructed without liners, and the movement of uranium contamina-tion into the town's well water is a foregone conclusion. (Space considerations prevent our printing the whole article, but we'll keep it on file for readers who request it.)
Contact: Ecocentre GAIA, P.O.Box 109, 183012 Murmansk-12, Russia; Peter Diehl, Schulstrasse 13, 79737 Herrischried, Germany, tel. +49-7764-1034.