Mayak Enterprise radiation accident, 1950 (original) (raw)

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compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
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**Date:**19 August 1950

**Location:**Mayak Enterprise, Chelyabinsk-40, Ozersk, Russia, USSR

**Type of event:**accident at radiochemical plant

Description:

A radiation accident at a radiochemical plant caused 1 case of acute radiation sickness.

**Consequences:**1 injury.

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