America`s worst nuclear disaster happened right in L.A.`s backyard
(LA Times Books)

To the editor: This article rightly adds the 1949-51 Mayak incident in Russia to the list of `worst nuclear accidents,` which includes Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima. (`Radiation levels near this Siberian village were 1,000 times above normal last fall. But no one worried much,` Feb....