Nuclear power has caused some serious disasters throughout the world. Is it a modern phenomenon, or is there evidence of its existence in the ancient world? The worst nuclear disaster in the United States occurred in Rhode Island at Wood River Junction in Richmond in 1964 when a production operator at United Nuclear Corporation’s Fuels Recovery Plant poured a concentrated uranium solution into a tank containing a sodium carbonate solution. He died shortly after. In 1957 a radioactive contamination accident occurred at the plutonium production center Mayak in Chelyabinsk-40 (now known as Ozyorsk), where nuclear weapons were made. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"95405","attributes":{"alt":"\"Chernobyl. Last day of Pripyat\" (April 26, 1986) by Alexey Akindinov (CC BY-SA 4.0)","class":"media-image","height":"406","style":"width: 610px; height: 406px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] "Chernobyl. Last day of Pripyat"
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