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
Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 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
It is at Tachkend that it is nearest to the Transsiberian, and a branch line is being made to Semipalatinsk to unite the railway systems of Central and Northern Asia.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
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