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Atoms and ashes

A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Serhii Plokhy 2022 . . Beaverton Lib 363.1799 PLO

1954 Bikini Castle Bravo thermonuclear test

  • 167 evacuated

1957 Kyshtym nuclear waste explosion

  • 10,000 evacuated, 270,000 exposed

  • wikipedia: 20 Mcuries of radioactivity

    • previous intentional dumping of 3 Mcuries into Techa river and 120 Mcuries into Lake Karachay

1957 Windscale fire

  • wikipedia: 300 Kcuries xenon-133, 20 Kcuries iodine-131, 600 curies cesium-137

1979 Three Mile Island accident

  • wikipedia: 14 μSv to 2M people, compared to 3100 μSv annual natural dose (8.5 μSv/day) 13 Mcuries noble gasses, 15 Curies iodine-131, 1e10 curies remained in reactor

1986 Chernobyl disaster

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

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