Exposed: Soviet nuclear cover up

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3118, 2017, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Aug 1956, fallout from a Soviet nuclear weapons test at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan engulfed the industrial city of Ust-Kamenogorsk and put more than 600 people in hospital with radiation sickness. New Scientist can reveal that a scientific expedition from Moscow in the aftermath of the hushed-up disaster uncovered widespread radioactive contamination and radiation sickness across the Kazakh steppes. The scientists tracked the consequences as nuclear bomb tests continued--without ever telling the people affected or the outside world. A report by scientists from the Institute of Biophysics in Moscow was found in the archive of the Institute of Radiation Medicine and Ecology in Semey, Kazakhstan. "For many years, this has been a secret," says the institutes director Kazbek Apsalikov, who found the report and passed it on to New Scientist. Other such reports were moved or destroyed when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.