A possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster threatens the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia as Soviet-built dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings that sit above the region are unstable, studies are said to have revealed. If the dams collapse, the spillage of the tailings would...
The Kara-Alma area is located in the northwest Yarkand-Fergana Basin, in the Sarik valley (Fig. 2; Table 1 for GPS coordinates). In this region, Jurassic deposits rest unconformably on strongly deformed Paleozoic rocks (Fig. 6A). The base of the series is affected by several NW–SE or...
In this region the water supply of inhabitants with drinking water is carried out from the rivers and canals originating from mountain rivers and including the river Mailuu-Suu. Therefore, the contamination of the river Mailuu-Suu and streams in the uranium province may further influence in the...