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  2. Energy accidents - Wikipedia

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    The flood immediately killed over 100,000 people, and another 150,000 died of subsequent epidemic diseases and famine, bringing the total death toll to around 250,000—making it the worst technical disaster ever.

  3. List of accidents and disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    [There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

  4. List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Chernobyl disaster: 1986, April 26 At least 78 are believed to have been directly killed by the disaster (31 due to the explosion, 28 due to radioactivity during cleanup, and an additional 19 for the same reason by 2004). [1] [2] There are varying estimates of increased mortality over subsequent decades (see Deaths due to the disaster). 100 ...

  5. Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] However, there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of projected deaths that have yet to occur due to the disaster's long-term health effects; long-term death estimates range from up to 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations) for the most exposed people of Ukraine ...

  6. List of hydroelectric power station failures - Wikipedia

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    The dam foundations washed away and a wave swept aside everything in its path, including two towns, killing at least eleven people, and thousands of cattle. [7] 1976: Machchhu Dam: Morbi India: The Machhu Dam-II collapsed, leading to the deluge of the city of Morbi and the surrounding rural areas. 1800–25,000 people were killed. [8] [9] 1979 ...

  7. List of disasters in the United States by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Thirty-four people were killed, four thousand people were arrested, and it is estimated that more than one thousand were injured. [63] 34 1878 1878 Wallingford tornado: Tornado Southern Connecticut: $5,300,000 (2007) 34 1893 1893 New York hurricane: Tropical cyclone Eastern United States: 34+ 1916 1916 Gulf Coast hurricane: Tropical cyclone

  8. 2021 Texas power crisis - Wikipedia

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    At the peak, over 5 million people in Texas were without power, [68] with 11 million experiencing an outage at some point, [22] some for more than 3 days. [69] During the period of outages, the wholesale electric price was set to $9,000/megawatt-hour which was the "system cap" set by ERCOT, [70] compared to a more typical $25/MWh. [22]

  9. List of nuclear power accidents by country - Wikipedia

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    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.