Prosecutors started investigating the consignment of 9,000 tonnes of coal from
the Kulan mine in southern Kazakhstan in November after activists discovered
that it was radioactive, media reported.
It is still unclear why the coal has a radioactive reading greater than
normal. The Soviet Union used Kazakhstan to test atomic bombs but it
conducted these experiments in the remote east of the county, hundreds of
miles from the coal mine.
Kyrgyz officials now say the radioactive coal has been collected and they plan
to return it to Kazakhstan. The Kulan mine has not commented.
Related posts:
Rebels forming unit to secure chemical weapons site
Yachtsman could be stranded on remote Pacific island after shipwreck
Death penalty requested in Tunisian dictator trial
Syria: Arab League peace mission on verge of collapse
NYPD Does It Again – Ray Kelly’s Hate Monger Once Wanted Felon
America’s Phony Election, the Polling Fiasco
Views: 0