Russia (Magadan) – Radioactive Remediation
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Population affected
130,000
Children Under 6 Affected
20,800
Soil contaminated with radioactivity on the main beach of Magadan has now been removed. Highly toxic hotspots from a factory now long closed were left behind on the beach and surrounds of this town in the Russian Far east. Blacksmith funded a local NGO to carefully monitor and remove these hotspots, transporting some 50 tons of dirt and contamination to a safe disposal facility.