Denis Sinyakov / Reuters
Alik Nuryshev, 20, a local resident suffering from childhood disability, including epilepsy and cerebral palsy, sits in his house in the village of Muslyumovo, Nov. 18, 2010. The village is located on the banks of the Techa River in Russia's Urals, one of the country's most lethal nuclear dumping grounds. The Mayak nuclear complex, located 18 miles from Muslyumovo, currently processes foreign radioactive waste, and it dumped 2.68 billion cubic feet of highly radioactive waste into the river from 1949 to 1956.
Muslyumovo is the only settlement left along the banks of the contaminated Techa river. Several other settlements were evacuated following huge radioactive discharges from the upstream nuclear reprocessing plant in the early 1950s.
The local government passed a resolution 1994 to relocate the residents of Muslyumovo who have suffered the most, but poor economic conditions caused no action to be taken.
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