Underground nuclear testing: Contamination

Underground nuclear testing: Contamination; BV Jeep away along road MS Sign advising of radiation danger GV Dead trees PAN L-R to stone sarcophagus LACMS Branches on dead Tree PULL OUT MS Veitch i/c SOT CMS Moss CMS Mushroom growing on ground ZOOM IN CMS Dr Brian East (Scottish Universities Reactor Centre) intvwd SOT -People come here to gather mushrooms to eat/ radioactivity could form in the mushrooms and pass to people when they eat them LS Diamond mines and surrounding buildings ZOOM IN LS Lorries on road towards en route diamond mine LMS Women seated on wooden bench BV Children along MS Small girl towards INT CMS Vasilly Alekseyev (Yakutia Environment Minister)reading report at desk CS Alekseyev's hand on section of report CMS Vasilly Alekseyev (Yakutia Environment Minister) intvwd SOT (Subtitled) -The amount of plutonium 239 and 240 in the soil at Kraton 3 (site of underground explosion) is about 100 times that found in the 30 km zone around Chernobyl/ the half lfe of plutonium is 24,000 years so the people of the area will have a long wait for the situation to change MS Prof Alexei Yablokov (Russian Environment Commission) reading papers on desk CMS Ditto CMS Ditto CMS Prof Alexei Yablokov (Russian Environment Commission)intvwd SOT -Nuclear testing underground can never be safe/ each test throws gases into the atmosphere EXT GV Site of underground nuclear explosion covered by huge stone sarcophagus PAN L-R CMS Section of broken tree at site GV Dead trees PAN R-L LAGV Top of sarcophagus GV Reflection in water PULL OUT to buildings on far side of river LMS Boys standing on bank waiting to enter water MS Boy swimming in water TX 14.7.95/C4N