The polonium-210 birthplace

Ozersk, Russia

Mayak plutonium production plant

The production of polonium starts from bombardment of bismuth (209Bi) with neutrons at the Mayak nuclear reactors in Ozersk, near the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia.

The Mayak production facility was top-secret during the cold war and still its operations are classified to a large extent.

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Больше историй из Litvinenko assassination

The first attempt

24 Grosvenor St, Mayfair, London W1K 4EA, UK

Office of Erinys

The assassination

44 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London W1K 2HP, UK

Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square

Death

233 Euston Rd, Fitzrovia, London, UK

University Collage Hospital

Identifying the poison

AWE Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire, UK

UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment