Mayak

The Mayak Production Association (Russian: Производственное объединение «Маяк», from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing plutonium production reactors and a reprocessing plant. The nuclear complex is located 150 km south-east of Ekaterinburg, between the towns of Kasli and Tatysh, and 72 km northwest of Chelyabinsk. The closest city, Ozyorsk, is the central administrative territorial district. As part of the Russian (formerly Soviet) nuclear weapons program, Mayak was formerly known as Chelyabinsk-40 and later as Chelyabinsk-65, referring to the postal codes of the site.

In 1957 Mayak was the site of the Kyshtym disaster, one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. During this catastrophe, a poorly maintained storage tank exploded, releasing 50-100 tons of high-level radioactive waste. The resulting radioactive cloud contaminated more than 750 km² (290 sq mi), contaminating an expansive territory in the eastern Urals and causing sickness and death from radiation poisoning. The Soviet regime kept this accident secret for about 30 years. The event was eventually rated at 6 on the seven-level INES scale, third in severity only to the disasters at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan.

Mayak (film)

Mayak (Russian: Маяк, meaning The Lighthouse) is a 2006 Russian film directed by Mariya Saakyan. Young director by Maria Sahakyan made picture about the war in the Caucasus, but without the war.

Synopsis

The film is about the war in Armenia from women's point of view. The girl (Lena) from Moscow, rides in a small North-Armenian town, where she was born. Then the war begins. Lena wants to take away one's grandmother and one's grandfather out of the place. But, having arrived home, she realizes that she has no opportunity to return to Moscow. Lena learns to live in conditions of war. She realizes that run away - not mean to escape. The latest frames of the film give us hope that life continues and everything will be fine.

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Mayak (rocket)

Mayak is the common name of the new family of launch vehicles (LV) for launching spacecraft.

Developer - Yuzhnoye Design Office Manufacturer - State Enterprise" Production Association "Southern Machine-Building Plant" them. A. Makarov "

The family is built in a modular fashion on the basis of a single line of the main engines of its own design with rods ≈80, 100, 120 and 200 t for the first stage and ≈8 ton (RD-8, RD-809M, RD-809K) for the upper stage rocket.

The advantage of single family use rocket engines, control and measurement of ground equipment and other components; rational combination of existing technical solutions (Zenit, Tsyklon) and a newly developed missile systems; implementation of waste production processes and technology use.

Estimated parameters of carrier rockets of the family "Mayak":

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