Word: kamenogorsk
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...took four planes, one bus and 93 hours for Sweet and Cahow to arrive in the town of Ust-Kamenogorsk, where they, as part of the Canadian Athletes in Action team, faced off against Kazakhstan and Russia in what was loosely called the Freedom...
Even just the process of getting to Ust-Kamenogorsk was not an easy task. Sweet and Cahow were on a bus—and it wasn’t your average coach bus—for 30 hours...
...once the Canadian troop made it to Ust-Kamenogorsk, they found some pleasant surprises...
Like the sports bar, the recently renovated ice rink upon which the team played contrasted greatly with the rest of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The team took the ice at the former training site of the 1984 Soviet ice hockey team, who lost in the gold medal game to the upstart Americans...
...began more than , a year ago, when U.S. officials heard a disquieting report from Kazakh officials. The collapse of the Soviet Union, they said, had stranded about 1,300 lbs. of uranium at the sprawling Ulba Metallurgical Plant on the windswept steppes, 20 miles outside the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there was enough nuclear material there to spawn as many...