'Nuclear power plants pose unmanageable risks' - Rediff


Rediff
'Nuclear power plants pose unmanageable risks'
Rediff
You have seen it time and again; the Kyshtym disaster in the 1950s, Three Mile Island in the 1970s, Chernobyl in the 1980s and Fukushima in 2011. We have seen that engineers, technocrats and politicians across nations have been unable to handle the ...

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Informer: 1957 explosion third-worst nuclear disaster - American Press


American Press
Informer: 1957 explosion third-worst nuclear disaster
American Press
The accident was named the “Kyshtym disaster” — a reference to the nearest known city. The nearest town was really Chelyabinsk-40 (later called Chelyabinsk-65), a “closed city” built to house Mayak workers and their families, but the city, ...

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