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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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