{"id":54621,"date":"2024-07-24T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54621"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:35:10","slug":"russia-kyrgyzstan-sign-radioactive-decontamination-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54621","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Kyrgyzstan sign radioactive decontamination deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kyrgyzstan ratified an agreement with Russia on Wednesday for the mass decontamination of radioactive areas that pose a threat to the local population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mountainous central Asian country, a former Soviet republic, is still suffering the environment consequences of uranium and other heavy metals mining during the Soviet era.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-two sites contain more than 300 million cubic metres (10.5 billion cubic feet) of toxic and radioactive waste.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agreement between the Kyrgyz and Russian governments to cooperate in the rehabilitation of territories in Kyrgyzstan affected by uranium extraction and the mining industry has been ratified,&#8221; President Sadyr Japarov&#8217;s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement aims to &#8220;ensure the safety of the population living in areas where there is waste from former uranium mines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without decontamination, natural disasters like landslides &#8212; which are frequent in the region &#8212; could send the waste spilling into rivers that traverse the entire Central Asian region, potentially contaminating millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgyzstan ratified an agreement with Russia on Wednesday for the mass decontamination of radioactive areas that pose a threat to the local population. The mountainous central Asian country, a former Soviet republic, is still suffering the environment consequences of uranium and other heavy metals mining during the Soviet era. Ninety-two sites contain more than 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2007],"class_list":["post-54621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-russia-kyrgyzstan-sign-radioactive-decontamination-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}