Kyshtym disaster

When

29 Sep 1957

Kind

Event

Coordinates

55.69° N, 60.80° E

Description

The Kyshtym disaster occurs at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Kyshtym disaster.

1957 radiological contamination disaster in the Soviet Union

The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the Soviet Union.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nukleare Havarie in der Kerntechnischen Anlage Majak (Russland): Kyschtym-Unfall”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “catastrophe nucléaire de Kychtym ; à Mayak, ville secrète d’Union soviétique”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Кыштымская авария (также известна как „ВУРС“)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ソ連ウラル地方で原子力事故（ウラル核惨事）が発生したが発表は伏せられた。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page