Nuclear Waste Explodes in the Ural Mountains
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Science, Environmental Issues, Disasters
- Subcategories: Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Ecology, Environment, Conservation, Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Soviet Union, Russia, Asia
- Date: 1957
Article abstract: A nuclear accident in the Urals killed hundreds of people and spread destruction over a vast area.
Summary of Event
“A tragic catastrophe occurred in 1958,” Zhores Medvedev wrote in his controversial article on Soviet science in 1976. He then described the world’s first major peacetime nuclear accident. At the time he wrote the article, however, he was wrong about the date of the event, which he pinpointed with later research as having occurred in the fall or winter of 1957. Near Kyshtym in the district of the Soviet city of...
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