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In central Ukraine, a city’s future is overshadowed by a radioactive neighbour

The city of Kamianske, once the home of a Soviet-era uranium processing facility, must deal with the millions of tonnes of radioactive waste left behind.

By Oleksandr Yaroshchuk
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The former Dnipro Chemical Plant, with Kamianske in the distance. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved.

Borys Petelin, a former worker at the now-closed Dnipro Chemical Plant in Kamianske, believes that the roughly 40 million tonnes of radioactive waste stored here pose a significant danger not only for the city, but also for the Dnipro river that runs through it.

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