The most terrible nuclear disaster: the Kyshtym tragedy. Mayak combine

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The worst nuclear disaster you've never heard of marks its 60th anniversary

In the history of nuclear disasters, it is easy to forget that the first was a radioactive explosion that occurred in 1957, located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozersk) in the Ural Mountains, near the little-known village of Kyshtym.

And while engineering heroism has finally been applied to the smoldering sarcophagus at Chernobyl, and robots prowl the wreckage of Fukushima, the disaster, according to many reports, continues to release radioactivity into the environment and languish hostages.
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The soviets never had the slightest regard for safety. It simply never seemed to enter into the equation. It's scary, really.

daveanderson

Always excellent YouTube videos from this guy.

adamellis

The Soviet Union: Learning every lesson the HARD way, from 1922 to 1991.

andyb

I heard the original explosion was a waste pit (not a tank). So much spent nuclear material had been dumped that it eventually went critical and exploded. In effect, a very dirty bomb.
The waste poured into the river was (and is)ongoing runoff from the factory processes.

Dave-dm

You failed to mention how the fallout landed over villages and melted people's skin off.

nicklacerte

It just baffles me how little they didn't care about doing even basic safety measures. They just were like, oh let's just dump it straight into a wild river that goes through villages, wetlands, no way ecological, humanitarian disasters could come of it? This is why there is societal stigma of trauma towards nuclear energy, when in reality, now a days we have advanced the technology, science, and safety measures around nuclear energy so much that I hope we can heal and move on from these very very ignorant days that has no regard for ecology or human health. If used correctly, nuclear energy can be the answer that solves and heals climate change so it's really interesting. A tool is only as good as how you use it. A table saw can build a house, or it could kill you, it just depends on how you use it and respect it and focus on safety measures around it. Same thing goes for nuclear energy and sadly we have terrible examples of times the tools and safety measures were completely used in awfully ignorant ways. I hope we move on and heal and prove to ourselves we can use this tool correctly when we respect it enough and don't just dump it into river's... Like come on?

benmcreynolds

Was told of this almost fifty years ago while going through USAF Nuclear Weapons school. Waste pond reached criticality and went off. Huge area around this place was off limits to locals and road through the area was a no stop zone and windows up and vents closed while driving through.

patrickwalsh

"17, 245 workers overdosed on radiation..." umm what? overdosed is the wrong term

wyliesdiesels

There's no excuse for this type of thing and Russia should be held accountable for clean up or all countries come together and help clean this area up. We just take money from each country to help this matter and to help fix other Radioactive areas. Many countries have done stupid things to depose of radiation, we all need to open up and come together and fix this. It would help us all in the future.

AaronChevy-kseb