Mayak
- Country: Russia
- Role: Reprocessing
- Status: Operating
- Year: 1948
Overview
The Urals complex that produced plutonium for the first Soviet bomb and still reprocesses spent fuel. The 1957 Kyshtym tank explosion, the third worst nuclear accident ever, contaminated the Techa river basin, and closed cities grew around the site.
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