The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that...
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List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll (category Lists of nuclear disasters)
2004 as a result of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl. The Kyshtym disaster, which occurred at Mayak in Russia on 29 September 1957, was rated...
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Mayak (redirect from 1957 Mayak disaster)
clear cases of radiation poisoning. In 1957 Mayak was the site of the Kyshtym disaster, which at the time was the worst nuclear accident in history. During...
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Alyoshenka (redirect from Kyshtym dwarf)
the Kyshtym Dwarf is believed by many to be a prematurely born female baby with many deformities found in the village of Kaolinovy, near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk...
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Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents (redirect from Nuclear disaster)
(1985) accidents. Serious radiation incidents/accidents include the Kyshtym disaster, the Windscale fire, the radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica, the radiotherapy...
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Efim P. Slavsky (section Kyshtym)
Labour award. Slavsky was best known for his work cleaning up the Kyshtym disaster in 1957 and again at Chernobyl in 1986. Slavsky was in charge of the...
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Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast (section Kyshtym disaster)
accident.[citation needed] In 1957, the Mayak plant was the site of a major disaster, releasing more radioactive contamination than the meltdown at Chernobyl...
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Susana Field Laboratory 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure 1957 Kyshtym disaster 1957 Windscale fire 1957 Operation Plumbbob 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise...
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Kyshtym (Russian: Кышты́м) is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains 90 kilometers (56 mi)...
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Hazards of Nuclear Power, which mentioned the Kyshtym nuclear disaster in passing. At the time, the disaster was essentially unknown, and his work was dismissed...
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been established after major disasters in which radioactive particles were released into the environment: Kyshtym disaster (1957) East Ural Nature Reserve...
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same level as Chernobyl". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2020. "Kyshtym disaster | Causes, Concealment, Revelation, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica...
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Windscale fire (redirect from Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster)
[citation needed] The accident at Windscale was also contemporary to the Kyshtym disaster, a far more serious accident[citation needed], which occurred on 29...
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List of environmental conflicts (section Disasters)
Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival (1980s) Chernobyl disaster Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima Daiichi disaster ITER Kyshtym disaster Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research...
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levels of radioactivity. The lake was used for this purpose until the Kyshtym Disaster in 1957, in which the underground vats exploded due to a faulty cooling...
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Chernobyl disaster released roughly 10 PBq, or about 5% of the core inventory, of strontium-90 into the environment. The Kyshtym disaster released strontium-90...
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deaths (WHO data, 2005). Another major radioactive accident was the Kyshtym disaster. The Kola Peninsula was one of the places with major problems. Around...
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Crisis 1961 K-19 nuclear accident 1961 SL-1 nuclear meltdown 1957 Kyshtym disaster 1957 Windscale fire 1957 Operation Plumbbob 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise...
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rates above 0.1 Gy/yr. This condition is primarily known from the Kyshtym disaster, where 66 cases were diagnosed. It has received little mention in Western...
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Lyubov Yegorova (born 1966), cross-country skier and Olympic champion Kyshtym disaster List of closed cities Law #271-OZ Russian Federal State Statistics...
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Pollution of Lake Karachay (category Disasters in the Soviet Union)
stated that Soviet officials initiated a process following the 1957 Kyshtym disaster resulting in the transfer of 3 billion curies of high level nuclear...
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Yekaterinburg, was a center of the Soviet nuclear industry and site of the Kyshtym disaster. The Ural Mountains extend about 2,500 km (1,600 mi) from the Kara...
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Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program as well as the location of the Kyshtym disaster. The town was modeled after plans stolen from the United States, who...
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are ranked at level 7. The first major nuclear accidents were the Kyshtym disaster in the Soviet Union and the Windscale fire in the United Kingdom, both...
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crystallized acetates-nitrates in a non-cooled waste tank caused the Kyshtym disaster in 1957. As there are some downsides to the PUREX process, there have...
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Born: Peter Sellars, American theatre director; in Pittsburgh The Kyshtym disaster occurred at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia. In British...
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List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country (category Lists of nuclear disasters)
the cervix received lethal doses of radiation. September 29, 1957 – Kyshtym disaster, Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion at Chelyabinsk. Two hundred...
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implied to be the result of exposure to nuclear fallout during the Kyshtym disaster. Elisa has dissociative identity disorder and has developed a second...
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'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) that is near the site of the 1957 Kyshtym disaster, the world's second highest radioactivity release after Chernobyl....
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who worked in the USSR. She is revealed to be a survivor of the 1957 Kyshtym disaster; the radioactive fallout triggered her psychic abilities. The girl...
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