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  • Here:

    Social compensation benefits for war victims

    War victims are entitled to social compensation benefits if their health was affected by events in connection with one of the two world wars.

    The number of war victims and their surviving dependants is declining sharply due to demographic factors. However, there may still be people in the future who suffer from the effects of the world wars. This may be the case, for example, with mines, grenades or bombs that have not yet been discovered or rendered harmless - so-called unexploded ordnance. People who suffer damage to their health as a result of unexploded ordnance are entitled to social compensation benefits.

    Source in German

    I couldn’t really find much else about the way it’s handled locally, it’s thankfully not really a common thing. I first heard about it in some TV documentary.














  • Lake Karachay was then designated a close-by and convenient dumping ground for large quantities of high-level radioactive waste too “hot” to store in the facility’s underground storage vats. The original plan was to use the lake to store highly radioactive material until it could be returned to the Mayak facility’s underground concrete storage vats, however it later became impossible due to the lethal levels of radioactivity.

    Holy shit, I’ve never heard about this before. What the hell were they thinking, a body of water has to be the worst possible choice to store nuclear waste. The whole thing is baffling.

    In 1990, the radiation level in the region near where radioactive effluent was discharged into the lake was 600 röntgens per hour (approximately 6 Sv/h) according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, sufficient to give a lethal dose to a human within less than an hour.

    Jesus Christ.