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Mailu Suu, Kyrgyzstan
Mailuusuu is a mining town in Jalal-Abad Region of southern
Kyrgyzstan. Its area is 120 square kilometres, and its resident
population was 22,853 in 2009. It has been economically depressed since
the fall of the Soviet Union.
There are twenty three tailing dumps and thirteen waste rock dumps
scattered throughout Mailuu-Suu, home to a former uranium plant built in
the Soviet era.
The plant produced and processed more than 10,000
metric tons of uranium ore from 1946- 1968. The total tailings volume is
about 1.96 million cubic meters and waste rock about 0.8 million cubic
meters.
Millions of people in Central Asia are potentially at risk as this area
is highly prone to seismic activity. The Obschestvenny Reiting newspaper
reported that about 300,000 cubic meters of material fell into the
Mailuu-Suu River near the uranium mine tailings after an earthquake in
2005.
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