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There are similar (or worse) horror stories about USSR U mining districts.

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free.ranger

In Reply to: RE: 'City 40': Secret cities in Russia . . . posted by Billy Wonka on October 28, 2016 at 22:53:00

Nasty inhuman stories. Thanks for the review.

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As an epilogue of sorts they had a list of cities in . . - Billy Wonka 11:21:07 10/30/16 (5)
Russia that are still secret/closed cities. Accordingly, they listed ONE city in Nevada that has the same status. Unfortunately, memory does not recall that city -- it was not Area 51 or anything like that.
- Can't find any references to a closed "city". - free.ranger 18:38:47 10/30/16 (4)
  I did look. Mil sites of course are off limits, and there are several of those in the Basin.
  More readily found are references to fallout sites; most notably Las Vegas and St George UT. LV received quakes and beautiful light shows, but winds blew mostly north or east. St George was where people were based for filming Genghis Kahn, John Wayne's fiasco. He, Susan Hayward, and many others later died from cancer, probably related to high level of blast fallout and radioactive dust blowing in and around the work sites while they were there.
  Other than that, there are references to many ranches with dead radioactive livestock.
  Much of the U mining in the US was in southeastern UT. The big community in those parts is Moab. A book that overs most things regarding U procurement is "Uranium", by Tom Zoellner, cr 2009. Fascinating reading.
  
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  - Did you watch the film and see the epilogue? - Billy Wonka 09:09:50 10/31/16 (3)
    If it's a "closed city" you're not supposed to be able to find it. I'd like to know myself because it listed Oak Ridge and a city in Washington as once closed.
    - No, have not seen the film. - free.ranger 09:36:47 10/31/16 (2)
      Just trying to add some info, digging through a couple of books I have. Its an interesting topic.
      Los Alamos was a closed city once. Now you can enjoy the sun sitting outside Starbucks.
      - RE: No, have not seen the film. - Frihed89 04:26:43 11/04/16 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: No, have not seen the film. posted by free.ranger on October 31, 2016 at 09:36:47
        
        Under Glasnost, a number of Russian secret cities were opened a bit to allow scientists working under contract to Multilateral donor organizations in order to provide technical support to the USSR. They were, according to all accounts, technologically backward, inefficient and dangerous to humans and the environment.
        
        I don't know what has happened since then, but I really don't trust these kinds of documentaries to explain the situation accurately. They are dominated by conspiracy theories where, in many cases, lack of scientific knowledge, management stupidity and bureaucratic inertia have been the main culprits.
        
        But I do hope this one, gets it right.
        
        Oh, one more thing - Frihed89 04:31:56 11/04/16 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: No, have not seen the film. posted by Frihed89 on November 04, 2016 at 04:26:43
        
        Those old early 50s Russian tubes we all like so much were produced in closed cities in the USSR.
        
        Better get out your geiger counters!

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