Nuclear disasters

Explosion at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima nuclear radiation levels 29 times bigger than Hiroshima

Introduction The Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011 was one of the most devastating disasters in recent history. It had a profound impact on the environment, the economy, and the health of those living in the affected areas. This article will provide an overview of the Fukushima nuclear accident and its consequences, as well as an

Natural gas storage tanks burn at a facility in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo [1259x1889]

Thirty years on, Bhopal is famous for that epochal event — the Bhopal Gas Tragedy — the worlds worst chemical and industrial disaster.

Chernobyl Disaster Explained Did you know that the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986, in Ukraine, was the worst nuclear accident in history? This event was catastrophic. It had far-reaching consequences for nuclear safety and the affected people. #chernobyl #NuclearEnergy

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.

That gonna leave a mark.

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences".

Chernobyl Reactor #4

You have probably never heard of the Kyshtym nuclear disaster. The Soviets covered it up for decades.

Used for years as nuclear dumping site by the Soviet Union, Lake Karachay has several times been declared the most polluted place on Earth.

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear meltdown that occurred on April 26, 1986, in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. During a late-night safety test which…

Chernobyl nuclear power plant has lost power, emergency generators will keep it cranking for 48 hours until repairs can be done.

Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, as it exploded.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: The fire in Reactor Four at the power plant burned for nine days. Anatoli Gubariev, a 26-year-old engineer, helped control the catastrophe with other fireman (shown).

A nuclear emergency refers to a situation in which there is or is presumed to be a hazard due to the release of energy along with radiation

You have probably never heard of the Kyshtym nuclear disaster. The Soviets covered it up for decades.