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The ''Kyshtym Disaster'' was an accident in the world's largest nuclear complex Mayak in Russia and is today one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the world. Until Chernobyl, Mayak was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Unlike Chernobyl, it has received very little attention. The Mayak nuclear facility, until recently deleted from all Russian maps, is the size of a small city and has been used to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons and reprocess nuclear reactor fuel for over 50 years. Since the 1950s, accidental and deliberate releases of radiation have exposed over a quarter of a million people living around the plant to high levels of radiation. Thousands have died and many more live with its debilitating legacy: sickness, sterility and poverty. Now the Russian Government is considering plans to import nuclear waste to Mayak from around the world.<ref>http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/half-life-living-with-effects-of-nuclear-waste as at April 3rd, 2010</ref>
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== Further information ==
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* [http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/reports/mayak Greenpeace: Mayak]
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** [http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/migrated/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5306.pdf direct link to the report PDF]
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* [http://archive.greenpeace.org/mayak/index.html Greenpeace archive on Mayak]
 
* [http://ecodefense.baltic.net.ru/stash/exhibition/index_eng.htm Photo exhibition on the Mayak disaster 1957]
 
* [http://ecodefense.baltic.net.ru/stash/exhibition/index_eng.htm Photo exhibition on the Mayak disaster 1957]
  
  
 
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Revision as of 16:37, 6 January 2014

The Kyshtym Disaster was an accident in the world's largest nuclear complex Mayak in Russia and is today one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the world. Until Chernobyl, Mayak was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Unlike Chernobyl, it has received very little attention. The Mayak nuclear facility, until recently deleted from all Russian maps, is the size of a small city and has been used to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons and reprocess nuclear reactor fuel for over 50 years. Since the 1950s, accidental and deliberate releases of radiation have exposed over a quarter of a million people living around the plant to high levels of radiation. Thousands have died and many more live with its debilitating legacy: sickness, sterility and poverty. Now the Russian Government is considering plans to import nuclear waste to Mayak from around the world.[1]


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