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tremynci t1_jb0an01 wrote

Reply to comment by denisrennes in [OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic Deaths by databeautifier

Looks like the 1957 Mayak disaster.

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denisrennes t1_jb0d5ac wrote

Possible but difficult to say because the figures were hidden by the USSR at the time. However, some of the figures given for Chernobyl by some sources seem closer.

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tremynci t1_jb0gj4d wrote

Sorry, neighbor, I wasn't clear: the deadliest radiation disaster listed in the Wikipedia list OP used as a source is the 1957 Mayak storage tank explosion. Chernobyl is third on that list

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databeautifier OP t1_jb13egb wrote

u/tremynci is correct: the source (listed in the visualization and my top-level comment) has the 1957 Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion as the all-time deadliest nuclear disaster with 200-6,000 deaths. I took the high end of this estimate (also mentioned in the visualization and my top-level comment).

Chernobyl is listed by the source as having a high end estimate of "4000+" with the note:

>Far higher death toll estimates have been made, but are disputed.

I took the Mayak disaster rather than going with disputed figures.

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