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Luxury apartments: what lies beneath?

Published: 31 October, 2008, 05:48


Moscow residents are very concerned that new apartment blocks may have been built on sites holding low grade nuclear waste. The waste was dumped during Soviet times and the developers insist it has been cleaned up, but that hasn't allayed the fears of som

 
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