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Radiation exposures in accidents - Annex C of UNSCEAR 2008 Report (Comprehensive list of accidents with details) "The world's worst nuclear power disasters" . Power Technology . 7 October 2013.
In the U.S., at least 56 nuclear reactor accidents have occurred. [2] The most serious of these U.S. accidents was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since ...
Fifty-seven accidents or severe incidents have occurred since the Chernobyl disaster, and about 60% of all nuclear-related accidents/severe incidents have occurred in the USA. [10] Serious nuclear power plant accidents include the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), the Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
This is a list of Wikipedia articles that are relevant to the topic of nuclear power and nuclear weapons history in the US state of California.The list includes articles about groups that make up the anti-nuclear movement, prominent activists, court cases, a book documenting the state's history, nuclear power stations and the Department of Energy's laboratories in the state.
A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine.
Bibliography of military nuclear accidents from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine; Official List of accidents involving nuclear weapons from the UK Ministry of Defence; Schema-root.org: Nuclear Power Accidents 2 topics, both with a current news feed
The plant supplies 6% of California's power, but carries a 1 in 37,000 chance of experiencing a Chernobyl-style nuclear meltdown within five years. Earthquake risks and rising costs: The price of ...