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Analysis of the 1957-58 Soviet Nuclear Accident (1979)
| Author | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, J.R.Trabalka, L.D.Eyman, S.I.Auerbach |
| Date | December 1979 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.80/04 (RUSSIA - MAYAK/CHELYABINSK (incl. Disaster Kyshtym Urals 1957)) |
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INTRODUCTION Retrospective accounts by former Soviet citizens (primarily by two individuals, 1-6,7) have suggested the presence of an extensive, uninhabited area contaminated by radioactive materials in Cheliabinsk Province (Ural Mountains) of the U.S.S.R. One source reported (L. Tumerman, 7) that he encountered a highly radioactive, restricted area (20-30 km long, approximately l00 km south of the city of Sverdlovsk) during an automobile trip from Cheliabinsk to Sverdlovsk in 1961. Both individuals believed, based on information supplied to them from a variety of sources (3,7), that the contaminated area was created following an explosion in a nuclear waste storage site (associated with plutonium production for military weapons) in the late 1950's. They were told that the accident resulted in significant loss of life (hundreds of people) and required the permanent evacuation of the civilian population from a large area. Information (extensively edited and unevaluated) released from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) files to a 'citizens' group (8) indicated the presence of military nuclear installations (Techa-Reactor, Sungul-Radiological Institute) near the city of Kasli (Fig. 1). These installations were located among many large lakes in the upper Techa River Drainage. The Techa River itself reportedly (8) had been contaminated with radioactivity throughout its course, perhaps to some extent as early as 1954.
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