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Asia 360: Life on Uranium Waste

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Adilet Bektursunov
Country: Kyrgyzstan
Year: 2019
Language: Russian / English subtitles
Time: 21:28
Athor: Adilet Bektursunov
The town of Min-Kush is located in the heart of Kyrgyzstan, in the mountains, at an altitude of two thousand meters above sea level. Here, in the small town, uranium was once extracted on an industrial scale. And until the 1960s, no one knew it existed. Min Kush wasn't even on the map.
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