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EPISODE · Sep 30, 2016 · 50 MIN

The Mayak Nuclear Disaster

from The History Hour · host BBC World Service

One of the world's worst nuclear disasters, the most notorious prison riot in America, Second World War internment in Australia, resistance in apartheid South Africa, and one of Britain's most celebrated artists, Stanley Spencer, through the eyes of his daughters.Photo: The Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in 2010. Credit: European Pressphoto Agency

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