Sunday, March 13, 2011

The list of relevant incidents at nuclear power plants

International Writing. .- The explosion today at a nuclear plant in Fukushima (Japan), damaged by an earthquake, adding to the list of relevant incidents in these facilities, who heads the one in 1986 at Chernobyl (Ukraine) the most serious of consequences so far. Other accidents in nuclear-December 12, 1952 .- The first serious nuclear accident occurs at the Chalk River plant in Ottawa (Canada), the core partially melted, causing no injuries.

In May 1958, a fire at the plant caused a radioactive leak. - September 30, 1957 .- An explosion in central secret Chelliabinsk-40, known as Mayak in the Ural Mountains (the former USSR), caused at least 200 people dead and contaminated with strontium 90 square kilometers. It was the second worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl (1986).

A total of 10,000 people were evacuated and tens of thousands were exposed to radiation. - October 7, 1957 .- The fire in a reactor at the Windscale nuclear plant in Sellafield, Liverpool (United Kingdom), produces a radioactive leak that contaminated an area of \u200b\u200b300 square kilometers.

- January 3, 1961 .- Three U.S. Navy technicians killed in the Idaho Falls facility in an accident with an experimental reactor. It was the first U.S. nuclear accident. - March 28, 1979 .- A series of human and mechanical failures caused the worst U.S. nuclear accident in Three Mile Island plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Thousands of residents were evacuated before the radioactive cloud was formed, about thirty square kilometers. - August 7, 1979 .- A thousand people were contaminated by radiation emitted by a secret plant near Irwin (Tennessee, USA). - March 8, 1981 .- Leakage of radioactive water from the plant in Tsuruga (Japan), not released until six weeks later, at which 300 people were exposed.

- April 26, 1986 .- The explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl (Ukraine) causes the largest nuclear accident in history. Were thrown into the atmosphere 200 tons of fissile material with a radioactivity equivalent to between 100 and 500 atomic bombs was dropped on Hiroshima. According to Ukrainian experts, Chernobyl killed over 100,000 people in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, the countries affected by the catastrophe ", a figure environmental groups like Greenpeace, rising to 200,000 - September 13, 1987 .- A radiation accident caused by pollution capsule of cesium-137 in the Brazilian city of Goiania four dead and 240 wounded.

- September 30, 1999 .- A leak of uranium at a nuclear fuel core of the company in Tokaimura JCO (Japan) kills two workers and other 438 people are affected by radiation. - April 6, 1993 .- The explosion of a container filled with a solution of uranium in secret plant in Tomsk-7 (Siberia, Russia), dedicated to the reprocessing of nuclear fuel, located 20 kilometers from the city of Tomsk (500,000 inhabitants), contaminated about 1000 square kilometers.

- August 9, 2004 .- Five workers die as a result of a leak of steam in the turbine room of one of the reactors of Mihama Nuclear Power Plant (Japan). - April 8, 2008 .- At least two killed by a gas leak at the Khushab nuclear power (Pakistan) which was evacuated the population within a radius of 16 kilometers.

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