Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Radioactive Dump Stirs Fears in City Suburb

By Svetlana Osadchuk
What many children in a densely populated eastern Moscow suburb used to think of as a good little hill to play and toboggan on has turned out to be a radioactive waste dump — one that local residents and ecologists say could spill over and contaminate a larger area.

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