Mayak: The secret nuclear power plant that poisoned Russians for decades
In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.
"the Soviets denied the accident for more than 30 years but came clean in 1989 admitting that two million Curies of radioactivity had been released. The IAEA estimated that the real number was closer to 20 million Curies.
(Chernobyl released 50 million Curies.)
#Nuclear #energy
https://bigthink.com/the-past/mayak-secret-nuclear-plant-poisoned-russians-decades
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