Kyshtym - Deadlier than Chernobyl? | 10 Curiosities and Interesting Facts
Follow me on Pinterest! - https://pinterest.com/10curiosities/ Like me on Facebook! - https://www.facebook.com/Curious-10-2... Few facts [SPOILER ALERT]: [5] The Kyshtym disaster is the primary, but not the only reason that Chelyabinsk is so contaminated. The waste that was dumped in the Techa River from 1949 to 1956 still claims victims in the villages downriver. In Muslumovo, those who weren’t evacuated in the 1950s and '60s were left in place and were tended to by national radiation experts who were studying the subjects of “a natural experiment” to glean information on the effects of nuclear war on humans. [4] In 1992, when Soviet records were declassified, that the nature of the Muslumovo experiment was uncovered. Even then, one pediatrician estimated that 90% of the village’s children suffered from genetic abnormalities, and only 7% were considered healthy. [3] It was impossible to keep information about the disaster from leaking out, at least in the surrounding area. The Western world, though, came to hear about it only in 1976, when Soviet emigrant first revealed some facts about the catastrophe. The CIA had known about it long before; by 1960 its network of informants and aerial spy photos had provided it with a clear picture of what had happened. [2] At least 22 villages exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10,000, were evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites! [1] People "grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown 'mysterious' diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin 'sloughing off' their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies." It was Zhores Medvedev who revealed the nature and extent of the disaster to the world. My source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/nuclear-disaster-kyshtym-1957-and-politics-cold-war http://mentalfloss.com/article/71026/kyshtym-disaster-largest-nuclear-disaster-youve-never-heard http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/04/important-history-kyshtym-disaster.html Another great videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYmGCIg9O6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYSYcNjjcoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmVSm70050 Curious 10 is a YouTube channel which can show you a lot of interesting things, like in this video. I hope that you will help us to be the biggest top 10 channel on YouTube. To make that possible you only need to subscribe, thumbs up and sometimes comment great videos on this channel. And what's the best... It's totally free for all, yes even for you! :D
Follow me on Pinterest! - https://pinterest.com/10curiosities/ Like me on Facebook! - https://www.facebook.com/Curious-10-2... Few facts [SPOILER ALERT]: [5] The Kyshtym disaster is the primary, but not the only reason that Chelyabinsk is so contaminated. The waste that was dumped in the Techa River from 1949 to 1956 still claims victims in the villages downriver. In Muslumovo, those who weren’t evacuated in the 1950s and '60s were left in place and were tended to by national radiation experts who were studying the subjects of “a natural experiment” to glean information on the effects of nuclear war on humans. [4] In 1992, when Soviet records were declassified, that the nature of the Muslumovo experiment was uncovered. Even then, one pediatrician estimated that 90% of the village’s children suffered from genetic abnormalities, and only 7% were considered healthy. [3] It was impossible to keep information about the disaster from leaking out, at least in the surrounding area. The Western world, though, came to hear about it only in 1976, when Soviet emigrant first revealed some facts about the catastrophe. The CIA had known about it long before; by 1960 its network of informants and aerial spy photos had provided it with a clear picture of what had happened. [2] At least 22 villages exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10,000, were evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites! [1] People "grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown 'mysterious' diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin 'sloughing off' their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies." It was Zhores Medvedev who revealed the nature and extent of the disaster to the world. My source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/nuclear-disaster-kyshtym-1957-and-politics-cold-war http://mentalfloss.com/article/71026/kyshtym-disaster-largest-nuclear-disaster-youve-never-heard http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/04/important-history-kyshtym-disaster.html Another great videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYmGCIg9O6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYSYcNjjcoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmVSm70050 Curious 10 is a YouTube channel which can show you a lot of interesting things, like in this video. I hope that you will help us to be the biggest top 10 channel on YouTube. To make that possible you only need to subscribe, thumbs up and sometimes comment great videos on this channel. And what's the best... It's totally free for all, yes even for you! :D