The Worst Nuclear Disasters
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Tomsk-7 Explosion, April 6. 1993
The accident in the Siberian city of Tomsk took place after a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas drifting from the Tomsk-7 Reprocessing Complex.
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