9 ядерных инцидентов, о которых не принято говорить

Nine nuclear incidents that are rarely discussed. Not because they are minor, but because when you add them up, it becomes clear: between our world and disaster, there was always one switch, one screwdriver, one bucket. SL-1 in Idaho: an operator pinned to the ceiling by a reactor rod, and a theory of deliberate suicide that was never proven. Kyshtym 1957: the CIA knew about the Soviet nuclear disaster since 1959—and kept silent so as not to discredit its own nuclear program. Palomares 1966: four hydrogen bombs over a Spanish fishing village, an eighty-day search for the fourth on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Damascus, Arkansas, 1980: a nine-megaton warhead ejected from its silo due to a dropped key. K-19: Eight volunteers entered a radioactive hellscape wearing raincoats and gas masks and died within nineteen days. Goldsboro: A single low-power switch prevented the US East Coast from being blanketed. Demonic Sphere: A single plutonium ball killed two physicists nine months apart in the same hospital room. Windscale: A British military reactor burned for three days, and the report was classified for thirty-one years. Tokaimura: A worker died eighty-three days after pouring too much uranium into a bucket. This is not an apocalypse. This is a chronicle of accidents that endured. Sources: Wikipedia - SL-1 (article on the SL-1 reactor accident, January 1961) McKeown, William. Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident. ECW Press, two thousand and three Environmental Defense Institute — The Truth about the SL-1 Accident (analytical report) Stanford University Physics 241 – SL-1 Reactor Accident case study Wikipedia - Kyshtym disaster (Kyshtym accident) Britannica — Kyshtym disaster IOP Science — Consequences of the radiation accident at the Mayak production association in 1957 Environment & Society Portal — The Nuclear Disaster of Kyshtym 1957 and the Politics of the Cold War Wikipedia - 1966 Palomares accident HISTORY.com - H-bomb incident, January 17, 1966 National Interest - B-52 Carrying Four Nuclear Bombs Crashed in Palomares, Spain ABC News - Palomares Anniversary: ​​That Time the US Dropped 4 Nukes on Spain Encyclopedia of Arkansas — Titan II Missile Explosion (1980) PBS American Experience — Command and Control (documentary based on the book by Eric Schlosser) Wikipedia — 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion Schlosser, Eric. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. Penguin Press, two thousand and thirteen Johnston's Archive — K-19 submarine reactor accident, 1961 19FortyFive – 8 Russian Engineers Climbed Into a Radioactive Reactor to Save Their Submarine Wikipedia - Soviet submarine K-19 Military Wiki Fandom - Soviet submarine K-19 Pravda English — Russia: anniversary of 1961 nuclear submarine K-19 accident Wikipedia - 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash NSArchive GWU - New Details on the 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident (Declassified Parker Jones Report) Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation - The Goldsboro B-52 Crash National Archives / Prologue Blog - Brush with Catastrophe: The Day the U.S. Almost Nuked Itself Wikipedia - Demon core American Physical Society - Louis Slotin Becomes Second Victim of Demon Core Nuclear Museum (AHF) - Atomic Accidents: Daghlian and Slotin Coffee or Die - The Story of the Demon Core National Park Service - Slotin Building, Los Alamos Wikipedia - Windscale fire Britannica – Windscale fire Sky HISTORY — The Windscale Fire: Britain's worst nuclear disaster in history IOP Science — The Windscale reactor accident, fifty years on EBSCO Research Starters - England's Windscale Reactor Releases Radiation Wikipedia - Tokaimura nuclear accidents World Nuclear Association - Tokaimura Criticality Accident 1999 All That's Interesting — The Tokaimura Nuclear Accident Of 1999 HowStuffWorks — Hisashi Ouchi Suffered an 83-day Death By Radiation Poisoning MIRA Safety - Hisashi Ouchi Radiation Exposure: Tokaimura Nuclear Accident IFLScience — Tokaimura Criticality Accident: What Happened To One Of The Most Irradiated Humans In History PBS American Experience - Broken Arrows: How Many Nuclear Accidents Have We Had Atomic Archive — Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents Union of Concerned Scientists — A Brief History of Nuclear Accidents Worldwide