nuclear accidents

There was a third nuclear weapon core manufactured and readied for deployment, but it remained at Los Alamos when Japan surrendered following the second (Nagasaki) nuclear attack. After two separate accidents in handling it claimed the lives of two project scientists and affected the health of...

This article provides an overview of newly-published research that seems to confirm the widely-detected atmospheric release of Ru-106 in 2017 resulted from an as-yet unacknowledged nuclear accident in the Ural region - most probably at the Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing complex. The estimated...