When you think of nuclear disasters, you think of the Chernobyl ... It was in the town of Chelyabinsk-65 (which was renamed Ozyorsk in the early 1990s); this town, according to the Soviets ...

“Contamination [in Chelyabinsk] is perhaps the highest ... as the third-most significant nuclear disaster ever. It is certainly the least well-known. At the time, just as the United States ...

Chelyabinsk Oblast ... Despite being the worst nuclear disaster up until Chernobyl, the incident was largely covered up, leading to thousands being displaced without an explanation.

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, euronews spoke to three ... Before that, I was living in the closed town of Ozyorsk, near Chelyabinsk. You have to be invited, in order to ...

The lake, in Russia's south-west Chelyabinsk region ... one of the country's largest — and leakiest — nuclear facilities. Built in the Forties as Soviets moved armament production east ...

The bomb that exploded at Hiroshima had a yield of 16 kilotons while the most powerful nuclear weapon active in U.S. service, the B83 bomb, has a yield of up to 1.2 megatons. The Chelyabinsk blast ...