词条 | Mayak |
释义 |
| name = Mayak | logo = Mayak_logo.png | logo_size = 80px | type = Federal State Unitary Enterprise | industry = Nuclear energy | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | founded = 1948 | founder = | defunct = | hq_location_city = Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast | hq_location_country = Russia | area_served = | key_people = | products = | owner = | num_employees = | num_employees_year = | parent = Rosatom[1] | website = {{URL|po-mayak.ru}} }} The Mayak Production Association ({{lang-ru|Производственное объединение «Маяк»}}, from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing a reprocessing plant. The closest settlements are Ozyorsk to the northwest and {{ill|Novogornyj|ru|Новогорный}} to the south. Lavrenti Beria led the Soviet atomic bomb project. He directed the construction of the Mayak Plutonium plant in the Southern Urals between 1945–48, in a great hurry and in secrecy as part of the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. Upwards of 40,000 Gulag prisoners and POWs built the factory and the closed nuclear city of Ozersk, called at the time by its classified postal code "Forty.[2]" Five (today closed) nuclear reactors were built to make, refine, and machine Plutonium for weapons. Later the plant came to specialize in reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors and plutonium from decommissioned weapons. Once production started up, Soviet engineers quickly ran out of underground space for storage of high level radioactive waste. Rather than cease production of plutonium until new underground waste storage tanks could be built, Soviet managers dumped between 1949-1951 7.8 cubic yards of toxic chemicals including 3.2 million curies of high-level, radioactive waste into the Techa River, a slow-moving hydraulic system that bogs down in swamps and lakes. Downriver, 124,000 people lived along the river. They used the river for drinking water, irrigation, for bathing and fishing. Investigators in 1951 found communities along the river highly contaminated in 1951. On discovery, soldiers immediately evacuated the first downriver village of Metlino, population of 1,200 where radiation levels measured 3.5-5 rads/hr. At that dose, people could get a lifetime external dose in less than a week. Over the course of the following decade, ten additional communities were resettled from the river, but the largest community called Muslumovo remained. Researchers investigated residents of Muslumovo annually in what has become a four-generation living experiment of people living among chronic, low doses of radioactivity. Blood samples showed that villagers of Muslumovo had received both external and internal doses of cesium-137, ruthenium-106, strontium-90, and iodine-131. These isotopes had deposited in organs, flesh and bone marrow. Villagers complained of a range of illnesses and symptoms--from chronic fatigue, sleep and fertility problems, weight loss and increased hypertension. The frequency of birth defects and complications at birth increased up to three times greater than normal. Doctors examined in 1953, 587 of 28,000 exposed people and found that 200 people had clear cases of radiation poisoning.[3] In 1957 Mayak was the site of the Kyshtym disaster, one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. During this catastrophe, a poorly maintained storage tank exploded, releasing 20 million curies in the form of 50-100 tons of high-level radioactive waste. The resulting radioactive cloud contaminated an expansive territory of more than 750 km2 (290 sq mi) in the eastern Urals with the consequence of sickness and death from radiation poisoning. The Soviet regime kept this accident secret for about thirty years. The event was eventually rated at 6 on the seven-level INES scale, third in severity only to the disasters at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan.[4] Mayak is still active as of 2017, and it serves as a reprocessing site for spent nuclear fuel.[4] Today the plant makes tritium and radioisotopes, not plutonium.{{fact|date=July 2017}} In recent years, proposals that the plant reprocess waste from foreign nuclear reactors have given rise to controversy. An incompletely reported accident appears to have occurred in September 2017.[5] LocationThe nuclear complex is located 150 km south-east of Ekaterinburg, between the towns of Kasli and Tatysh, Mayk 55.6951 N, 60.8026 E and 72 km northwest of Chelyabinsk. The closest city, Ozyorsk, is the central administrative territorial district. As part of the Russian (formerly Soviet) nuclear weapons program, Mayak was formerly known as Chelyabinsk-40 and later as Chelyabinsk-65, referring to the postal codes of the site.[6] Design and structureMayak's nuclear facility plant covers about 90 square kilometers. The site borders Ozyorsk, in which a majority of the staff of Mayak live. Mayak, itself, was not shown on Soviet public maps. The location of the site together with the plant city was chosen to minimize the effects that harmful emissions could potentially have on populated areas. Mayak is surrounded by a ~250 km2 exclusion zone. Nearby is the site of the South Urals nuclear power plant.[7] HistoryBuilt in total secrecy between 1945 and 1948, the Mayak plant was the first reactor used to create plutonium for the Soviet atomic bomb project. In accordance with Stalinist procedure and supervised by NKVD Chief Lavrenti Beria, it was the utmost priority to produce enough weapons-grade material to match the U.S. nuclear superiority following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Little to no consideration was paid to worker safety or responsible disposal of waste materials, and the reactors were all optimized for plutonium production, producing many tons of contaminated materials and utilizing primitive open-cycle cooling systems which directly contaminated the thousands of gallons of cooling water the reactors used every day.[8][9] Lake Kyzyltash was the largest natural lake capable of providing cooling water to the reactors; it was rapidly contaminated via the open-cycle system. The closer Lake Karachay, too small to provide sufficient cooling water, was used as a dumping ground for large quantities of high level radioactive waste too "hot" to store in the facility's underground storage vats. The original plan was to use the lake to store highly radioactive material until it could be returned to the Mayak facility's underground concrete storage vats, but this proved impossible due to the lethal levels of radioactivity. The lake was used for this purpose until the Kyshtym Disaster in 1957, in which the underground vats exploded due to a faulty cooling system. This incident caused widespread contamination of the entire Mayak area (as well as a large swath of territory to the northeast). This led to greater caution among the administration, fearing international attention, and caused the dumping grounds to be spread out over a variety of areas (including several lakes and the Techa River, along which many villages lay).[9] Kyshtym disaster{{Main article|Kyshtym disaster}}Working conditions at Mayak resulted in severe health hazards and many accidents.[10] The most notable accident occurred on 29 September 1957, when the failure of the cooling system for a tank storing tens of thousands of tons of dissolved nuclear waste resulted in a chemical (non-nuclear) explosion having an energy estimated at about 75 tons of TNT (310 gigajoules). This released 740 PBq (20 MCi) of fission products, of which 74 PBq (2 MCi) drifted off the site, creating a contaminated region of 15,000-20,000 km2 called the East Urals Radioactive trace.[13][14] Subsequently, an estimated 49 to 55 people died of radiation-induced cancer,[11] 66 were diagnosed with chronic radiation syndrome,[12] 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes, and 470,000 people were exposed to radiation.[4] The Soviet Union did not release news of the accident and denied it happened for nearly 30 years. Residents of Chelyabinsk district in the Southern Urals reported observing "polar-lights" in the sky near the plant, and American aerial spy photos had documented the destruction caused by the disaster by 1960.[13] This nuclear accident, the Soviet Union's worst before the Chernobyl disaster, is categorized as a Level 6 "Serious Accident" on the 0–7 International Nuclear Events Scale. When Zhores Medvedev exposed the disaster in a 1976 article in New Scientist, some exaggerated claims circulated in the absence of any verifiable information from the Soviet Union. People "grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown 'mysterious' diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin 'sloughing off' their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies."[14] As Zhores wrote, "Hundreds of square miles were left barren and unusable for decades and maybe centuries. Hundreds of people died, thousands were injured and surrounding areas were evacuated."[15] Professor Leo Tumerman, former head of the Biophysics Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, disclosed what he knew of the accident around the same time. Russian documents gradually declassified from 1989 onward show the true events were less severe than rumored. According to Gyorgy,[16] who invoked the Freedom of Information Act to open up the relevant Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) files, the CIA knew of the 1957 Mayak accident all along, but kept it secret to prevent adverse consequences for the fledgling USA nuclear industry. "Ralph Nader surmised that the information had not been released because of the reluctance of the CIA to highlight a nuclear accident in the USSR, that could cause concern among people living near nuclear facilities in the USA."[14] Only in 1992, shortly after the fall of the USSR, did the Russians officially acknowledge the accident. Later historyIn December 1968, the facility was experimenting with plutonium purification techniques. Two operators were using an "unfavorable geometry vessel in an improvised and unapproved operation as a temporary vessel for storing plutonium organic solution."[17] "Unfavorable geometry" means that the vessel was too compact, reducing the amount of plutonium needed to achieve a critical mass to less than the amount present. After most of the solution had been poured out, there was a flash of light and heat. After the complex had been evacuated, the shift supervisor and radiation control supervisor re-entered the building. The shift supervisor then entered the room of the incident, caused another, larger nuclear reaction and irradiated himself with a deadly dose of radiation.[18] This tale has since made its way into popular culture, being found in the website DarwinAwards.com.[19] 2017 radiation release{{Main article|Airborne radioactivity increase in Europe in autumn 2017}}Abnormally high levels of radiation were reported in the area of the facility in November 2017.[20] Simultaneously, traces of radioactive manmade isotope Ruthenium-106 spread across Europe in September and October, it had never been seen on a continental scale since the Chernobyl accident. In January 2018, the French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Security (IRSN) reported that the source of the contamination is located in the Volga - Southern Ural region between September 25 and 28 for a duration of less than 24 hours. The report excludes the possibility of an accidental release from a nuclear reactor, stating that it seems related with irradiated fuels processing or the production of sources from fission products solution. It points to Mayak's aborted attempt to manufacture a capsule of highly radioactive component cerium-144, for the Italian Borexino supernova detection project.[21] For now both the Russian government and Rosatom have denied that another accidental leak took place at Mayak.[22] The release of a cloud of ruthenium-106, is similar to the B205 reprocessing accident in Britain in 1973. Environmental impactIn the early years of its operation, the Mayak plant directly discharged high-level nuclear waste into several small lakes near the plant, and into the Techa River, whose waters ultimately flow into the Ob River. Mayak continues to dump low-level radioactive waste directly into the Techa River today. Medium level waste is discharged into the Karachay Lake. According to the data of the Department of Natural Resources in the Ural Region, in the year 2000, more than 250 million m³ of water containing thousands of curies of tritium, strontium, and cesium-137 were discharged into the Techa River. The tritium concentration, alone, in the Techa River near the village Muslyumovo exceeds the permissible limit by 30 times.[23] Rosatom, a state-owned nuclear operations corporation, began to resettle residents of Muslyumovo in 2006. However, only half of the residents of the village were moved. [23] People continue to live in the immediate area of the plant, including Ozersk and other downstream areas. Residents report no problems with their health and the health of Mayak plant workers. However, these claims lack hard verification, and many who worked at the plant in 1950s and 1960s subsequently died from the effects of radiation.[24][25] While the situation has since improved, the administration of the Mayak plant has been repeatedly criticized in recent years by Greenpeace and other environmental advocates for environmentally unsound practices. List of accidentsThe Mayak plant is associated with two other major nuclear accidents. The first occurred as a result of heavy rains causing Lake Karachay, a dried-up radioactively polluted lake (used as a dumping basin for Mayak's radioactive waste since 1951), to release radioactive material into surrounding waters. The second occurred in 1967 when wind spread dust from the bottom of Lake Karachay over parts of Ozersk; over 400,000 people were irradiated.{{quantify|date=October 2016}}.[26]{{better source|date=October 2016}} Major accidents at Mayak, 1953-1998Source:[27]
More recent major accidents
See also
References1. ^{{cite web|title=All enterprises |url=http://www.rosatom.ru/en/all-enterprises/ |website=Rosatom.ru |accessdate=18 June 2017 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421021455/http://www.rosatom.ru/en/all-enterprises/ |archivedate=21 April 2017 }} 2. ^{{Cite book|title=Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters|last=Brown|first=Kate|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780199855766|location=Oxford|pages=|oclc=813540523}} 3. ^{{Cite book|title=Plutopia: nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters|last=Brown|first=Kate|publisher=|year=|isbn=9780190233105|location=|pages=|oclc=892040856}} 4. ^{{cite news|last1=Walker|first1=Shaun|title=Russia begins cleaning up the Soviets' top-secret nuclear waste dump|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/02/russia-begins-cleaning-up-the-soviets-top-secret-nuclear-waste-dump?CMP=share_btn_tw|accessdate=7 July 2017|work=The Guardian|date=2 July 2017}} 5. ^{{cite news|last1=Luxmoore|first1=Matthew|last2=Cowell|first2=Alan|title=Russia, in Reversal, Confirms Radiation Spike|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/world/europe/russia-nuclear-cloud.html|accessdate=November 21, 2017|publisher=New York Times}} 6. ^{{cite journal| url=http://www.nrpa.no/dav/1fbb52ea04.pdf | title=Review of the current status and operations at Mayak Production Association | publisher=Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority | year = 2006 | author=Will Standring }} 7. ^This section copied and translated from the German Wikipedia entry for "Mayak", with some grammatical errors corrected 8. ^{{cite web|author=Name (required) |url=https://nuclear-news.net/information/nuclear-history/nuclear-history-the-forgotten-disaster/ |title=Nuclear History – the forgotten disasters |publisher=Nuclear-news.net |date= |accessdate=2017-07-07}} 9. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.nti.org/learn/facilities/894/ |title=Mayak Production Association | Facilities |publisher=NTI |date= |accessdate=2017-07-07 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706151057/http://www.nti.org/learn/facilities/894/ |archivedate=6 July 2017 }} 10. ^{{Cite journal| last = Larin | first = Vladislav | title = Mayak's walking wounded |journal = Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists| volume = 55 | issue = 5 | pages = 20–27 | date = September–October 1999 | url = http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/q27k0g110k554870/?p=1e082b5efa3e4feeba52c0e5b0bcceb1&pi=7 | doi = 10.2968/055005008}} 11. ^1 {{cite journal|last=Standring |first=William J.F. |author2=Dowdall, Mark and Strand, Per |title=Overview of Dose Assessment Developments and the Health of Riverside Residents Close to the "Mayak" PA Facilities, Russia |journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |year=2009 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=174–199 |doi=10.3390/ijerph6010174 |pmid=19440276 |url=http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/1/174/pdf |accessdate=11 June 2012 |issn=1660-4601 |pmc=2672329 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109012701/http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/1/174/pdf |archivedate=9 November 2013 }} 12. ^{{cite book|last1=Gusev |first1=Igor A. |last2=Gusʹkova |first2=Angelina Konstantinovna |last3=Mettler |first3=Fred Albert |title=Medical Management of Radiation Accidents |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6b4qDorN4wC&pg=PA15 |accessdate=2012-06-11 |date=2001-03-28 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-7004-5 |pages=15–29 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102131827/http://books.google.com/books?id=p6b4qDorN4wC&pg=PA15 |archivedate=2 January 2014 }} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/nuclear-disaster-kyshtym-1957-and-politics-cold-war |title=The nuclear disaster of Kyshtym 1957 and the politics of the Cold War |date=2012 |accessdate=25 October 2014 |website=Arcadia |publisher=Environment and Society |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026122154/http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/nuclear-disaster-kyshtym-1957-and-politics-cold-war |archivedate=26 October 2014 }} 14. ^1 Pollock, Richard, 1978. "Soviets Experience Nuclear Accident," Critical Mass Journal 3 pp.7–8 15. ^Zhores Medvedev, The Australian, 9.12.1976 16. ^Gyorgy, A. et al., 1980. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YKP_KZGD7dwC&pg=PA13 No Nukes: Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power]. South End Press {{ISBN|0-89608-006-4}}. pp. 13, 128 17. ^McLaughlin et al. "A Review of Criticality Accidents {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927235352/http://www.orau.org/ptp/Library/accidents/la-13638.pdf |date=27 September 2007 }}" by Los Alamos National Laboratory (Report LA-13638), May 2000 18. ^"Mayak Enterprise criticality accident, 1968." Mayak Enterprise criticality accident, 1968. Accessed December 10, 2017. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1968USSR2.html. 19. ^{{Cite web|url=http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1994-25.html|title=Absolutely Radiant|last=|first=|date=|website=Darwin Awards|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 20. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioactivity-986-times-norm-nuclear-accident-claim|title=Russian nuclear facility denies it is source of high radioactivity levels|first=Shaun Walker Hannah|last=Devlin|date=21 November 2017|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}} 21. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Documents/IRSN_Report-on-IRSN-investigations-of-Ru-106-in-Europe-in-october-2017.pdf|title=Report on IRSN investigations of Ru 106 in Europe in October 2017|last=IRSN|first=|date=January 2018|website=www.irsn.fr|access-date=February 16, 2018}} 22. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/mishandling-spent-nuclear-fuel-russia-may-have-caused-radioactivity-spread-across|title=Mishandling of spent nuclear fuel in Russia may have caused radioactivity to spread across Europe|date=2018-02-14|work=Science {{!}} AAAS|access-date=2018-02-16|language=en}} 23. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Kyshtym_Disaster |title=Kyshtym Disaster |date=6 January 2014 |website=Nuclear-Heritage.net |publisher= |accessdate=25 October 2014 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026121347/http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Kyshtym_Disaster |archivedate=26 October 2014 }} 24. ^{{cite journal|last1=Koshurnikova|first1=N.A.|last2=Shilnikova|first2=N.S.|last3=Sokolnikov|first3=M.E.|last4=Bolotnikova|first4=M.G.|last5=Okatenko|first5=P.V.|last6=Kuznetsova|first6=I.S.|last7=Vasilenko|first7=E.K.|last8=Khokhryakov|first8=V.F.|last9=Kreslov|first9=V.V.|date=|year=2006|title=Medical-dosimetry registry of workers at the 'Mayak' production association|url=http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=9516&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or|journal=International Journal of Low Radiation|publisher=Inderscience Publishers|volume=2|issue=3/4|pages=236–242|doi=10.1504/IJLR.2006.009516|accessdate=January 6, 2012|via=}} 25. ^{{cite journal|last1=Azizova|first1=Tamara V.|last2=Muirhead|first2=Colin R.|last3=Moseeva|first3=Maria B.|last4=Grigoryeva|first4=Evgenia S.|last5=Sumina|first5=Margarita V.|last6=O’Hagan|first6=Jacqueline|last7=Zhang|first7=Wei|last8=Haylock|first8=Richard J. G. E.|last9=Hunter|first9=Nezahat|date=|year=2011|title=Cerebrovascular diseases in nuclear workers first employed at the Mayak PA in 1948–1972|url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/n7017u02r2072482/|journal=Radiation and Environmental Biophysics|publisher=Springerlink|volume=50|issue=4|pages=539–552|doi=10.1007/s00411-011-0377-6|pmid=21874558|accessdate=January 6, 2012|via=}} 26. ^1 A report on the 1957 accident and on endemic radioactive pollution at Mayak {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714130850/http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ural.htm |date=14 July 2010 }} 27. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/11-80076_Report_2008_Annex_C.pdf|title=Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation – 2008 Report to the General Assembly|last=|first=|date=|year=2011|website=United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation|page=|at=Annex C: Radiation exposures in accidents|format=PDF|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531015743/http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/11-80076_Report_2008_Annex_C.pdf|archivedate=31 May 2013|deadurl=no|access-date=|volume=II Scientific Annexes C, D, and E|chapter=}} 28. ^All of the above list transferred directly from the Russian Wikipedia entry for "Mayak". Translated and some grammatical errors corrected 29. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/nuke_industry/siberia/mayak/27922 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-03-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811025233/http://www.bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/nuke_industry/siberia/mayak/27922 |archivedate=11 August 2011 }} 30. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2007/Mayak_leak |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-03-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012042538/http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2007/Mayak_leak |archivedate=12 October 2012 }} 31. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2008/another_mayak_incident |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-03-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725061400/http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2008/another_mayak_incident |archivedate=25 July 2011 }} 32. ^{{cite news|title=Russia confirms 'extremely high' readings of radioactive pollution|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-confirms-extremely-high-readings-radioactive-pollution-184627359.html|accessdate=3 December 2017|work=Yahoo News}} External links{{Commons category|Mayak nuclear facility}}
10 : Nuclear reprocessing sites|Nuclear technology companies of Russia|Nuclear waste companies|Buildings and structures in Chelyabinsk Oblast|Ural Mountains|Nuclear weapons programme of Russia|Federal State Unitary Enterprises of Russia|Companies based in Chelyabinsk Oblast|Rosatom|Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (Soviet Union) |
随便看 |
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。