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Analysis of the 1957-58 Soviet Nuclear Accident (1979)

Auteur	Oak Ridge National Laboratory, J.R.Trabalka, L.D.Eyman, S.I.Auerbach
Datum	december 1979
Classificatie	2.34.8.80/04 (RUSLAND - MAYAK/TSJELIABINSK (incl. ramp Oeral 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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