Heavily contaminated area | pollution, radioactive, underground facility, nuclear waste storage

Russia / Murmansk / Zaozyorsk /
 pollution, radioactive, underground facility, nuclear waste storage
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Extremely radioactive. I'm not sure how the southern area got contaminated; it's not near any of the storage buildings.
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Coordinates:   69°26'58"N   32°21'1"E

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  • How do you know it's radioactive?
  • The contamination here is due to leakages from Building No. 5. The former pool-storage for spent nuclear fuel that had a serious leakage to the ground back in the early 80ies.
  • Yes, that long gray building is building 5.
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