5 Most Radioactive Sites in the World

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5 Most Radioactive Sites in the World. These sites have all experienced nuclear disasters and as a result are still radioactive to this day! Subscribe to World5List http://goo.gl/cpJSA6 Find us on... -- http://www.twitter.com/world5list -- http://www.pinterest.com/world5list -- http://www.boredbadger.com -- http://www.facebook.com/world5list Hanford Site In the state of Washington, plutonium for the Atomic Bomb that ended WWII, as well nuclear weapons for the cold war were manufactured at a little place known as the Hanford Site.While the weapons have been decommissioned since the end of the cold war, the area is still highly contaminated as leaks have contaminated the groundwater and soil near the ste.In addition to making the A-Bombs, more than 60,000 nuclear weapons were made at Hanford. The site was also home to nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium processing plants. Many nearby residents were displaced in order to build this enormous complex. The Somali Coast In 2005 it was discovered that organized crime syndicates, and even some large companies had been using the Somali Coast to dump radioactive waste. Since Somalia hasn’t had a discernible government for years, the country is pretty unregulated, making it a convenient spot for people to get rid of dangerous radioactive materials. Myak Myak is a industrial complex that was very important to Russia during the Cold War. This was a place where the Soviet Union conducted top secret experiments and research for nuclear weapons, in case they needed them for Armageddon or to force the rest of the world to embrace communism. Maybe they were just trying to counter America’s aggression, but whatever the case, this place housed all kinds of stuff, in particular, plutonium reactors. And on September 29, 1957, one of the worst nuclear accidents of all time occurred at this site. In 2011, a series of earthquakes caused a tsunami, which in turn caused an accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The accident, which occurred on March 11, 2011, released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment the next day. It is considered to be the second worst nuclear accident of all time. Chernobyl It seems like Chernobyl is synonymous with nuclear disaster. That’s because the disastrous accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 is considered to the the worst ever, at least in terms of the casualties and the cost of all the damage. Located in the Ukraine, Chernobyl was a nuclear power station owned by the Soviet Union, that was decommissioned after that fateful day in 1986. The accident happened during an experiment to test safety features on one of the reactors. Things went horribly wrong and a massive explosion sent radioactive materials into the surrounding areas. In the immediate aftermath, 31 people were killed, all of whom were workers at the site.. Over the next 14 years, more than 350,000 people were evacuated from their homes due to contamination. This wasn’t just people in the Ukraine either, folks in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were forced to resettle as well.