Flooding has devastated parts of southern Russian and Kazakhstan in recent weeks and tens of thousands of people have been displaced. But as water levels are sinking, scientists say a different crisis may be surfacing. Russian independent media and environmentalists say old uranium mines have been flooded, leaking radioactive material into the Tobol River. Alexei Shvarts, a Russian physicist and ecologist, warns that decaying uranium alpha-particles may cause cancer in humans. Russian nuclear energy authorities at state-owned Rosatom claim that the uranium mines are at no risk of flooding and that radioactive material has not been detected in water sources.

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