Nuclear Disaster in the Urals

Nuclear Disaster in the UralsLate in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic wastes had been stored for over ten years. The result was devastating. The primary radioactive contamination covered between 800 and 1200 square miles, an area almost as large as Rhode Island. People died whole villages had to be evacuated and bulldozed. All that remained, both plant and animal life, received

Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic wastes had been stored for over ten years. The result was devastating. The primary radioactive contamination covered between 800 and 1200 square miles, an area almost as large as Rhode Island. People died--whole villages had to be evacuated and bulldozed. All that remained, both plant and animal life, received such a massive dose of radiation that its effects will probably be felt for as long as a century.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/01/1980
ISBN: 9780393334111
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d