The 1957 incident at the Mayak Production Association in the southern Ural Mountains involved a catastrophic explosion in a high-level radioactive waste storage tank. This event, initially shrouded in secrecy, resulted in... Read more »
The 1957 event at the Mayak Production Association in the Soviet Union, often ranked as the third-worst nuclear accident in history after Chernobyl and Fukushima, involved an explosion in a tank storing... Read more »
The 1957 event at the Mayak Production Association in the Soviet Union, often referred to by a nearby town’s name, involved a catastrophic failure of a cooling system in a tank storing... Read more »