The highway through the south of the Russian capital goes past a former metals processing site and could scatter radioactive particles into the air, the environmental group has warned.
Environmental campaigners in Russia have warned that the construction of a 23-mile highway in Moscow will release buried radioactive dust left over from a factory that mined uranium and thorium more than 20 years ago.
Activists first sounded the alarm in July about the risks of the construction of the road which would skirt the plant that stopped production in 1996 and now makes military equipment. Traffic is on Moscow's Garden Ring is shown in this illustrative image. Greenpeace says that a proposed 23-mile highway from the south of the city could kick up deadly radioactive dust., alpha-active thorium-232 and radium-226 were found on the planned construction site in five locations. Experts say there is a risk that during construction, contaminated soil could be spread into the air as well as into the river that runs through the Russian capital.
Local residents say they were not informed about the radiation risks when they attended public hearings discussing the road which was first mooted last year.:"I believe the authorities know full well the risks but it's a lot easier to steal state budget funds allocated to construction than to clean up radioactive waste."
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