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===Environmental problems=== [[File:Kalmius 01.jpg|thumb|Coal-mining [[Spoil tip|spoil tips]] along the [[Kalmius|Kalmius river]] in Donetsk]] Intensive coal-mining and [[steel industry|smelting]] in the Donbas have led to severe damage to the local environment. The most common problems throughout the region include: *water-supply disruption and flooding due to the [[mine water]] *visible air pollution around [[Coke (fuel)|coke]] and [[steel mill]]s *air/water contamination and [[mudslide]] threat from [[spoil tip]]s Additionally, several [[chemical waste]]-disposal sites in the Donbas have not been maintained, and pose a constant threat to the environment. One unusual threat is the result of the Soviet-era {{ill|1979 project|uk|Ядерний вибух у Донецькій області|vertical-align=sup}} to test experimental [[Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy|nuclear mining]] in [[Yenakiieve]]. For example, on 16 September 1979, at the [[Yunkom coal mine]], known today as the Young Communard mine in Yenakiyeve, a 300kt nuclear test explosion was conducted at 900m to free methane gas or to degasified coal seams into a sandstone oval dome known as the [[Klivazh]] [Rift] Site so that methane would not pose a hazard or threat to life.<ref name=UkrainianWeek16042018>{{citation | last = Kazanskyi | first = Denys | title = Disaster in the making: The "DPR government" has announced its intention to flood the closed Young Communard mine in Yenakiyeve. 40 years ago, nuclear tests were carried out in it, and nobody knows today what the consequences would be if groundwater erodes the radioactive rock | url = http://ukrainianweek.com/Society/212456 | work = [[The Ukrainian Week]] | date = 16 April 2018 | access-date = 5 October 2018}}</ref> Before [[Glasnost]], no miners were informed of the presence of radioactivity at the mine, however.<ref name=UkrainianWeek16042018/>
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