Kyshtym Disaster facts
While investigating facts about Kyshtym Disaster Photos and Kyshtym Disaster Death Toll, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was a Soviet nuclear disaster that happened on 1957. The Kyshtym Disaster. Death toll is estimated to be at 50 to more than 8,000. The CIA knew about it but covered it up to prevent panic affecting their own nuclear plants.
how did the kyshtym disaster happen?
29 years before Chenobyl, another lesser known nuclear disaster occurred in Kyshtym. Records are rare, but it seems some 10,000 people were evacuated and speculation that some 6000-8000 died
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 9 of the best facts about Kyshtym Disaster Documentary and Kyshtym Disaster 1957 I managed to collect.
what caused the kyshtym disaster?
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There exists East Ural Radioactive Nature Reserve, 64 sq miles radioactive exclusion zone in the middle of Russia, created as a result of 1957 Kyshtym nuclear disaster, that was kept secret until 1989.
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There that the Kyshtym disaster was a Russian nuclear power plant that had a meltdown and contaminated 20,000 km of land that is now a nature preserve, 26 years before Chernobyl
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Kyshtym was the third worst nuclear disaster behind Fukushima which I've never even heard of.
