refer to it as Chelyabinsk-40. This is a typical Soviet identi¬
fication scheme for closed institutes: the name of a nearby city
and a numerical designator.
In April 1958, a Copenhagen newspaper reported a "catastrophic
accident" involving Soviet nuclear weapons tests and linked it to
the Soviet unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons tests in March
1958. Accounts of a serious accident in a "Soviet Atomic Plan*:"
appeared in an Austrian newspaper in 1959. In 1962 the incident
was mentioned in "Review of Nuclear incidents" as an "unconfirmed
report of a major reactor incident." And, in 1976 Zhores Medvedev,
an exiled Soviet geneticist, brought the "incident" to the atten¬
tion of the scientific community by claiming that buried nuclear
waste material near Kyshtym exploded, killing hundreds of people
and contaminating "a large area, probably more than a thousand
square miles in size."
Today, the Kyshtym Disaster is no longer merely an intriguing
enigma. The allegations surrounding it bear heavily on the whole
question of nuclear waste disposal in the US. Medvedev's asser¬
tions, therefore, must be examined impartially to determine what
really happened at Kyshtym.
This document has been prepared at the request of the Depart¬
ment of Energy and represents our current thinking.
refer to it as Chelyabinsk-40. This is a typical Soviet identi¬fication scheme for closed institutes: the name of a nearby cityand a numerical designator.In April 1958, a Copenhagen newspaper reported a "catastrophicaccident" involving Soviet nuclear weapons tests and linked it tothe Soviet unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons tests in March1958. Accounts of a serious accident in a "Soviet Atomic Plan*:"appeared in an Austrian newspaper in 1959. In 1962 the incidentwas mentioned in "Review of Nuclear incidents" as an "unconfirmedreport of a major reactor incident." And, in 1976 Zhores Medvedev,an exiled Soviet geneticist, brought the "incident" to the atten¬tion of the scientific community by claiming that buried nuclearwaste material near Kyshtym exploded, killing hundreds of peopleand contaminating "a large area, probably more than a thousandsquare miles in size."Today, the Kyshtym Disaster is no longer merely an intriguingenigma. The allegations surrounding it bear heavily on the wholequestion of nuclear waste disposal in the US. Medvedev's asser¬tions, therefore, must be examined impartially to determine whatreally happened at Kyshtym.This document has been prepared at the request of the Depart¬ment of Energy and represents our current thinking.
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