NUCLEAR

CHEMISTRY
Frabelyi Serra Alfonseca.
KYSHTYM (RADIOCTIVE
CONTAMINATION)

History

Nuclear Principle

Examples

Conclusion

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 HISTORY

The Kyshtym disaster, 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 production site for nuclear weapons and
nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the
closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in
Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet
Union. The disaster is the second-worst nuclear
incident by radioactivity released, after the
Chernobyl disaster. It is the only disaster classified
as Level 6 on the International Nuclear Event
Scale, which ranks by population impact, making it
the third-worst after the two Level 7 events: the
Chernobyl disaster, which resulted in the
evacuation of 335,000 people, and the Fukushima
Daiichi disaster, which resulted in the evacuation of
154,000 people.

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NUCLEAR PRINCIPLES

1957. the Mayak plant was the site of a major disaster, one
of many other such accidents, releasing more radioactive
contamination than Chernobyl. An improperly stored
underground tank of high-level liquid nuclear waste
exploded, contaminating thousands of square kilometers
of land, now known as the Eastern Ural Radioactive
Trace. The matter was covered up, and few either inside or
outside Russia were aware of the full scope of the disaster
until 1980.
The tank held highly radioactive waste which overheated
and blew, belching up a 160-ton cement cap buried
twenty-four feet underground and tossing it in the air. A
column of radioactive dust and smoke rocketed skyward
for a half mile, which sent down a sooty fallout. The blast
issued into the earth’s atmosphere 20 million curies.
 EXAMPLES

a massive undersea earthquake

—the largest ever recorded in
Japan—occurred off the northeast
coast of the country's Tōhoku
region
On September 13, 1987, a
radioactive contamination
accident occurred in the
Brazilian state of Goais. An old
radiotherapy source was stolen
from an abandoned hospital in
the city. Subsequently, it was
treated by many people, killing
four people. 112,000 people were
screened for radioactive
contamination with 249 having
significant levels of radioactive
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material in their bodies.
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The Kyshtym was a radioctive disaster that affect

millions of peoples in a bad situation. is the second-
worst nuclear incident by radioactivity
released which ranks by population impact,
making it the third-worst after the two Level 7
events: the Chernobyl disaster, which resulted in
the evacuation of 335,000 people, and the
Fukushima Daiichi disaster, which resulted in the
evacuation of 154,000 people.

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