Mayak Enterprise reactor accident, 1951 (original) (raw)

Database of radiological incidents and related events-- Johnston's Archive

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
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**Date:**15 December 1951

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

**Type of event:**accident at nuclear reactor site

Description:

A radiation accident at a nuclear reactor site caused 2 injuries, both with acute radiation sickness.

**Consequences:**2 injuries.

References:

• Azizova, T. V., N. G. Semenikhina, and M. B. Druzhinina, 2005, "Multi-organ involvement and failure in selected accident cases with acute radiation syndrome observed at the Mayak Nuclear Facility," British Journal of Radiology Supplement, 27:30-35.

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