Vague reports of a "catastrophic accident" causing "radioactive fallout over the Soviet and many neighboring states" began appearing in the western press between 13 and 14 April 1958, and the first details emerged in the Viennese paper The true number of fatalities remains uncertain because To reduce the spread of radioactive contamination after the accident, contaminated soil was excavated and stockpiled in fenced enclosures that were called "graveyards of the earth".The level of radiation in Ozyorsk, at about 0.1 mSv a year,Map of the East Urals Radioactive Trace (EURT): area contaminated by the Kyshtym disaster.Lenssen, "Nuclear Waste: The Problem that Won't Go Away", M.R.StJ. The average person living in Ozyorsk, 8 km from the Mayak Nuclear Facility, had a long term radioactive burden on their body at 17 Reports indicated that humans living in the affected area during the time that the disaster took place and their offspring have developed problems with reproductive functions, mortality, age structure, and gender deformities.
Codenamed City 40, Ozersk was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme after the second world war. A week later (on 6 October 1957), an operation for evacuating 10,000 people from the affected area started, still without giving an explanation of the reasons for evacuation. Постановления №2255 от 23 октября 2014 г. For the documentary about the city, see Почта России. The Ozersk facility today is not nearly as important as it once was, but it is extremely important due to the horrendous damage inflicted upon both the environment and the people even though there was only one accident, people who did not even realize they were being poisoned by the radiation due to the secretive nature of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
A fire at a Russian nuclear processing plant was much more serious than originally reported, qualifying as a level three on the seven-grade international scale, … The fallout of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more than 800 to 20,000 kmBecause of the secrecy surrounding Mayak, the populations of affected areas were not initially informed of the accident. Опубликован: "Южноуральская панорама", спецвыпуск, 30 ноября 2004 г. Закона №124-ЗО от 28 апреля 2011 г «О внесении изменений в Закон Челябинской области "О статусе и границах Озёрского городского округа"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. «О статусе и границах Озёрского городского округа», в ред. Kyshtym disaster, explosion of buried nuclear waste from a plutonium -processing plant near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia (then in U.S.S.R.), on September 29, 1957. Ozyorsk along with Richland, Washington, were the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium for use in cold war atomic bombs. Опубликован: "Южноуральская панорама", №111–112, 14 июня 2006 г.Законодательное Собрание Челябинской области. The Worst Nuclear Weapon Accidents - … In 1957 the cooling system in one of the tanks containing about 70–80 tons of liquid radioactive waste failed and was not repaired. Loading... Unsubscribe from NowThis World? Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. Foreman, Reactor accident chemistry an update, Cogent Chemistry, 2018, volume 4, 1450944, "The Nuclear Disaster They Didn't Want To Tell You About". These populations were recorded at experiencing a radioactive exposure of 40-500 There are seventeen different cultural and public-service institutions. Due to disregard for safety, several accidents took place in the nuclear plant contaminating a large area of the region «О внесении изменений в перечень муниципальных образований (административно-территориальных единиц) Челябинской области и населённых пунктов, входящих в их состав».