Semipalatinsk
Americannoun
noun
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The date to protest nuclear testing commemorates the closing of the former Soviet Union’s nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk, now part of Kazakhstan, on Aug. 29, 1991.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023
And Pierpaolo Mittica's short film Semipalatinsk Polygon, the crime of nuclear testing - revealing the human and environmental legacy of Cold War weapons testing - won the Video category.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2021
For the farming community of Semipalatinsk, the tests have wreaked a quiet, generational havoc: it is the cause, they believe, of terrible birth defects in their children.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2011
"Semipalatinsk has made people radiation-phobic, though it's less of a problem now than it was," said Timor Zhantikin, who chairs the Nuclear Power Committee in the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies.
From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2010
Their sources of supply were Hamil, Barkul, and Chuguchak, within the Chinese frontier, and Kuldja, Semiretchinsk, and Semipalatinsk, without.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
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