19 December 2001
Brest residents set to protest against radioactive waste grave construction
Brest residents call outrageous the plans of the local authorities to construct a burial place for radioactive waste in the outskirts of the city. People are ready to stage protest for nature protection. The matter is that the Brest direction of the capital construction received 100 million BLR from the country’s budget. The money is allotted for liquidation of a so-called ‘object # 802’ and construction of a burial place for radioactive waste.
Object # 802’ is a formerly secret territory by the well-known memorial “Brest Fortress”. Until 1980-ies uranium ore that was taken from atomic power stations in Eastern Europe was reloaded there. It was necessary to reload the ore, as the railway in the former USSR does not correspond European width.
Few people knew about this dangerous place in the center of the city. However, experts confirmed that the radiation level at some spots of this area are hundreds times higher than usual. The most contaminated spots of the ground were taken to the Ukraine and stored in one of special mines. The future of the ‘Object # 802’ belonged on the actions of Belarusian authorities.
As Radio Svaboda informs, mass protest of the people is possible. People are set to protest against actions of the system that do not consider it important to consult people about construction of dangerous objects.
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