Top Ten Most Polluted Places in the World, 2006

[Logan13]

Top Ten Most Polluted Places in the World, 2006
This Top Ten list was compiled by the Technical Advisory Board of the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO based in New York. The criteria used in ranking the include the size of the affected population, the severity of the toxins involved, and reliable evidence of health problems associated with the pollution.

1. Chernobyl, Ukraine
The world's worst nuclear disaster took place on April 26, 1986.
2. Dzerzhinsk, Russia
A major Russian chemical manufacturing center, which produced Sarin and other deadly poisons during the cold war. Between 1930-1998, nearly 300,000 tons of chemical waste were improperly disposed of.
3. Haina, Dominican Republic
An urban area severely contaminated with lead from a now defunct automobile battery recycling plant.
4. Kabwe, Zambia
The country's second largest city is severely contaminated with lead from the mining industry.
5. La Oroya, Peru
Lead, copper, zinc, and sulfur dioxide from mining have contaminative the town.
6. Linfen, China
Severe air and water pollution from the coal, steel, and tar industries.
7. Maiuu Suu
Kyrgyzstan This former Soviet uranium plant town is saturated with radioactive uranium mine tailings.
8. Norilsk, Russia
An industrial city in Siberia founded in 1935 as a slave labor camp, Norilsk is home of the world's largest heavy metals smelting complex and is plagued by severe air pollution. 9
9. Ranipet, India
About 1,500,000 tons of tannery waste has accumulated in this town over the past two decades.
10. Rudnaya Pristan/Dalnegorsk, Russia
Severe lead contamination from an old smelter as well as the the unsafe transport of lead concentrate from the local lead mining site.

[Kale]

I cant believe my ass isnt on that list

[Kärnfysikern]

hmm putting chernobyl on the first place seems more like propaganda than reality to me.
Especialy if going by the "reliable evidence of health problems associated with the pollution. "

Fact are only a few thousand deaths can be direclty atributed to chernobyl and those where among the cleanup crew.

[Logan13]

hmm putting chernobyl on the first place seems more like propaganda than reality to me.
Especialy if going by the "reliable evidence of health problems associated with the pollution. "

Fact are only a few thousand deaths can be direclty atributed to chernobyl and those where among the cleanup crew.

Chernobyl will be a dangerous place to live for many, many generations. In my view, a few thousand deaths is not just a "few". Perhaps you do not like that it is #1 because of your politics, we all know how much you favor nuclear power, that this was quite the black eye for it.

[RA]

Im surprised parts of the U.S. werent in there. Must not be a liberal organization compiling it

[Logan13]

Im surprised parts of the U.S. werent in there. Must not be a liberal organization compiling it

That's actually why I wanted to post this, the way that most liberal American and European people speak you would think that the US is one big garbage can.

[Kärnfysikern]

Chernobyl will be a dangerous place to live for many, many generations. In my view, a few thousand deaths is not just a "few". Perhaps you do not like that it is #1 because of your politics, we all know how much you favor nuclear power, that this was quite the black eye for it.

No but there are worse places. In russia I know of a lake that is so severly radioactive that its worse than chernobyl, because of loads of a-bomb tests. Cant remembr its not now.

Many former russian naval bases are very dangerous because of radioactive waste lying around.

Offcourse I guess fewer people have been effected in those places, but they are probably more dangerous to be in. Chernobyl for instance is a popular tourist destinations nowdays.

If going by number of people effected the bhopal disaster in india is unbeated winner, but its not a danger today.

[SVTMuscle*]

Good post. very interesting....


*waiting for Johans post....*

damn he beat me!

[Kärnfysikern]

here is a similar list with the same locations but different in ranking.

http://www.droppingknowledge.org/web...-planet-earth/

[Kärnfysikern]

If you guys want a dangerous american place look up The Hanford Nuclear Reservation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford...ar_Reservation

[Kärnfysikern]

Im not blind to chernobyl btw, it was a horrible disaster, but what I am cranky about is how environmentalist have such a hard time accepting that it was no where as bad as they screamed it would be. The IAEA report on chernobyl was quite enlightening.
Still to this day I hear our stupid minister of energy screaming about how bad it was and how we must downsize swedish nuclear industry because of it. I just want to walk up and slap that fat **** proper everytime I hear it.

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...ight=chernobyl


I am etremely worried about not enouhg is beeing done to chernobyl now. Chain reactions still spontaniously get started in the melted reactor on rainy days. They have to pump neutron absorbers into it when its moist. Its very very dangerous. I wish the entire world would dish out money to get the new containment building in place now rather than later.

[Prada]

Interesting to see that 4/10 of the worst places are in Russia and 6/10 in it`s vicinity. Somewhat subective to calculate I would tend to think

[humungus88]

Soon to be added; Iraq with all the depleted Uranium. I know if I am wrong, Johan will be all over my ass.

[Kärnfysikern]

Interesting to see that 4/10 of the worst places are in Russia and 6/10 in it`s vicinity. Somewhat subective to calculate I would tend to think

Biggest suprise to me was that only one place in china and one in india was on the list. I would also have expecte atleast some place from europe, I would assume some industrial areas of east germany is quite dirty??

Soon to be added; Iraq with all the depleted Uranium. I know if I am wrong, Johan will be all over my ass.

depleted uranium has gotten a bit exagerated. It is poisonous because it is a heavy metall but its half life is so long(4 billion years or something like that) that its no danger because of radioactivity.

But its as dangerous as mercury, lead and nasty heavy metals like that.

[Logan13]

Biggest suprise to me was that only one place in china and one in india was on the list. I would also have expecte atleast some place from europe, I would assume some industrial areas of east germany is quite dirty??


depleted uranium has gotten a bit exagerated. It is poisonous because it is a heavy metall but its half life is so long(4 billion years or something like that) that its no danger because of radioactivity.

But its as dangerous as mercury, lead and nasty heavy metals like that.

This is why I post these things Johan, we don't always know what we think that we know.

[Kärnfysikern]

This is why I post these things Johan, we don't always know what we think that we know.

Yeah always good to get some perspective.

I realy hope russia will spend some of its new found fortune on cleaning up the mess. All the dirty shit around murmansk is a bit to close for comfort. Especialy to my home town.

Scrapped subs just laying there to rust and release all that filth everywhere. Its as much sweden, norway and finlands problem as it is Russias.