Caption

Radioactive Waste and Pollution in Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley in 2005

Summary

This map shows the radioactive waste hotspots in Ferghana Valley, one of the former Soviet Union’s main sources of metal and uranium ore.
This area is spotted with nuclear waste storage sites, abandoned uranium mines and nuclear reactors.

Source

United Nations Environment Programme / GRID-Arendal

Radioactive Waste Hotspots and Transboundary Pollution in Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley in 2005

Cartographer/Designer: Emmanuelle Bournay

UNEP, UNDP, NATO, OSCE, Environment and Security Initiative, 2005

Copyright

© 2006 UNEP / GRID-Arendal

Licencing

For use constraints see [1]

Series

This map is ten in a series
For a listing with flyovers, see Series:UNEP / GRID-Arendal.