Kyshtym disaster
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kyshtym Tragedy, 1957, Kyshtym accident, Mayak disaster, Ozyorsk disaster
nuclear disaster
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It sits within the topics 1957 disasters in the Soviet Union, 1957 health disasters and 1957 in the environment.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nuclear disaster
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Location
- Ozyorsk
- Image
- Map of the East Urals Radioactive Trace.png
- Number of deaths
- 200
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- point in time
- 1957-09-29
- number of evacuated
- 10000
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kyshtym disaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.