Cheljabinsk-65. A nuclear accident waiting to happen again

Cheljabinsk-65 is nowadays known as Mayak, one of the biggest nuclear complexes in the world. In 1957 a tank with nuclear waste exploded at Mayak, spreading nuclear materials for miles around. The Soviet government hushed up the accident. They also didn’t inform people living there that the facility was dumping radioactive waste water in the river Tetsja which was also used for swimming and as source for drinking water. Accidents kept happening at the Mayak facility after 1957. The last incident at which a lot of radiation was released was in 2007.