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The results of environmental assessment of ash ponds of thermal power plants in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk are given. High radioactivity of coal in the Russian Far East is responsible for the accumulation of radionuclides in the fly and bottom ashes, which leads to pollution of atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere with toxic and radioactive elements. Runoff carries these elements to the Ussuri Bay of the Sea of Japan. Harmful effect of these wastes on human health is noted, and possible ways of their utilization have been recommended.
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Original Russian Text © V.P. Zvereva, L.T. Krupskaya, 2012, published in Ekologicheskaya Khimiya, 2012, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 225–233.
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Zvereva, V.P., Krupskaya, L.T. Environmental assessment of coal ash ponds of thermal power plants in the south of the Russian Far East. Russ J Gen Chem 83, 2668–2675 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070363213130124
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