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| | Leningrad NPP builds radioactive metal melting plant without proper environment evaluation |
 | | The radioactive waste melting plant was built only few hundred meters away from the Baltic Sea, 4km from Sosnovy Bor with population of 60,000 inhabitants, 13km from the swan nature reserve, Lebiazhie, protected by the International (Ramsar) Convention on Wetlands, 80km from St Petersburg, 70km from Estonia, and 100km from Finland. |
 | | On February 9, the mayor of Sosnovy Bor, Mr Nekrasov, commenced public hearings on the construction of the plant. |
 | | A concern was voiced, that the presence of an external organization on the territory of LNPP could increase the risk of terrorism. |
| www.bellona.no /en/international/russia/npps/leningrad/19381.html (938 words) |
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