In 2001 alone, more than 300 women of Bokhtar Rayon were issued microcredits to put themselves in business in 2002, microcredits were received by 200 women in the Bokhtar Rayon and 100 women in the Vakhsh Rayon. sic

They are non governmental organizations. For example, the women's NGO in Varzob Rayon provided gas service for its rayon with the financial support of NSIFT.

Similar structures are in place in oblast, city, rayon and local representative bodies of authority.

For example, in partnership with the NGO Voices of Friends and employment centres of the Yavan Rayon and the I. Somoni district of the city of Dushanbe, additional jobs were created for 20 unemployed women.

In addition, there are other types of preferential retirement pensions that involve circumstances such as living conditions (the high mountain Murgab Rayon in the Pamirs) or disabilities such as pituitary dwarfism or group 1 vision impairment.

At the Mayak Industrial Reprocessing Complex in Russia s southern Urals, a storage tank holding nitrate acetate salts exploded in 1957, releasing a massive amount of radioactive material over 20,000 square kilometers, forcing the evacuation of 272,000 people. In September 1994, an explosion at Indonesia s Serpong research reactor was triggered by the ignition of methane gas that had seeped from a storage room and exploded when a worker lit a cigarette.