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2. "the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded"

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 05:40 AM

Nov 2013

It measured as a Level 6 disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale, making it the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded, behind the Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (both Level 7 on the INES).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

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Is anyone familiar with the Techa River/Kyshtym Nuclear Disaster? [View all] NickB79 Nov 2013 OP

I'd heard about it intaglio Nov 2013 #1

"the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded" bananas Nov 2013 #2

Sure - many of us are familiar with this PamW Nov 2013 #3