Kyshtym disaster

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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 reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the Soviet Union.

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