The reactor explosion would cause a political crisis.
In 1978 a bored staffer wrote a fake news report claiming a nuclear reactor explosion destroyed Waterloo, Iowa killing 15,000 people.
Together with caesium-134, iodine-131, and strontium-90, caesium-137 was among the isotopes distributed by the reactor explosion that constitute the greatest risk to health.
The agency said that most of those who returned are elderly and that many never adjusted to relocation after the nuclear reactor explosion April 26, 1986.
She was completely destroyed in the resulting reactor explosion.
"Such as the reactor explosion on the colony outpost," Data said.
Possibility of a reactor explosion aboard Albatross.
The estimated cleanup costs of a large reactor explosion could easily surpass $300 billion.
The botched experiment and the reactor explosion that followed were partly due to human incompetence, but the reactor design was flawed.
The reactor explosion on April 26, 1986, combined with a fire and heavy release of radiation, killed 31 people by official Soviet count.