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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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    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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    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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    building in Kyshtym. The grand Palladian townhouse with two lateral towers is set on a hill in a fenced park. It is featured in Kyshtym's city emblem...
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    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....
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  • and 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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    of deaths (WHO data, 2005). Another major radioactive accident was the Kyshtym disaster. The Kola Peninsula was one of the places with major problems...
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  • Socialist 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...
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    Ozyorsk or Ozersk (Russian: Озёрск) is a closed city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It had a population of 82,164 as of the 2010 census. The town was founded...
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    Santa Susana Field Laboratory 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure 1957 Kyshtym disaster 1957 Windscale fire 1957 Operation Plumbbob 1954 Totskoye nuclear...
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  • took it over in 1908, once it had acquired the Kyshtym Mining Works of 1900, a Russian company. The Kyshtym Corporation Ltd. then bought the shares from...
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    Three Mile Island, USA (M = 7.9), Fukushima-Daiichi, Japan 2011 (M = 7.5), Kyshtym, former USSR 1957 (M = 7.3). Nuclear technology portal Nuclear meltdown...
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    Bawdwin Mine.: 90–96, 101–102  He also helped increase copper production in Kyshtym, Russia, through the use of pyritic smelting. He also agreed to manage...
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  • skyscraper in Rotterdam whose name means "White House" White House, Kyshtym, a townhouse in Kyshtym White House (Moscow), a government building in Moscow White...
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    Oblast. The constituency covers northern Chelyabinsk Oblast. Until 2007 Kyshtym constituency stretched to the west, covering several districts of the Mountain-Industrial...
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    accident, 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...
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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...
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    K-431 (1985) accidents. Serious radiation incidents/accidents include the Kyshtym disaster, the Windscale fire, the radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica,...
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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...
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  • 1977, Medvedev published Hazards of Nuclear Power, which mentioned the Kyshtym nuclear disaster in passing. At the time, the disaster was essentially...
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    about 5% of the core inventory, of strontium-90 into the environment. The Kyshtym disaster released strontium-90 and other radioactive material into the...
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    Volume 13 Harmony Hurstmonceaux Volume 14 Husband Italic Volume 15 Italy Kyshtym Volume 16 L Lord Advocate Volume 17 Lord Chamberlain Mecklenburg Volume...
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  • dose 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...
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    in the Southern Urals when the first factory-centered towns like Miass, Kyshtym, and Zlatoust were founded. After the Southern Urals recovered from the...
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  • disasters in which radioactive particles were released into the environment: Kyshtym disaster (1957) East Ural Nature Reserve – Russia, established 1968. Chernobyl...
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  • "Israel News – The Jerusalem post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 5 March 2018. "Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region – Parks and Landscapes". www.parksandlandscapes.org...
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  • extraction factory. Constructed some fifteen miles east of the small town of Kyshtym, this plutonium production complex came to be known as Chelyabinsk-40 and...
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  • Missile Crisis 1961 K-19 nuclear accident 1961 SL-1 nuclear meltdown 1957 Kyshtym disaster 1957 Windscale fire 1957 Operation Plumbbob 1954 Totskoye nuclear...
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  • the Unai Pass. Chisholm, Hugh (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica: Italy-Kyshtym. At the University Press. p. 625. Military Report on Afghanistan. Division...
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    [citation needed] The accident at Windscale was also contemporary to the Kyshtym disaster, a far more serious accident[citation needed], which occurred...
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