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The location[]

A unidentified top-secret nuclear fuel plant in Tennessee.

1979 accident[]

A unquantified amount of highly enriched uranium spewed out of a top-secret nuclear fuel plant in Tennessee. This lead to 1,000 people getting up to 500% as much radiation as they would normally have had in a year.

It dose not officially have a INES ratting, but probably was a Level 5 INES Scale event.

Also see[]

  1. Atomic accidents and disasters

Link[]

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/nuclear_disasters/framesource_timeline.html

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