Kyshtym disaster
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nuclear disaster
Key facts
- Native name
- Кыштымская авария
- Date
- 29 September 1957
- Time
- 11:22 UTC
- Location
- Mayak , Chelyabinsk-40 , Chelyabinsk Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Also known as
- Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster
- Type
- Nuclear accident
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Kyshtym disaster (Russian: Кыштымская авария), 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 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the Soviet Union.
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