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Tornado outbreak of March 24, 2023. At least 23 people are killed after a series of violent tornadoes impact the U.S. state of Mississippi. 2023 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion. Seven people are killed and many others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Guardian)
The Windscale fire resulted when uranium metal fuel ignited inside plutonium production piles; surrounding dairy farms were contaminated. [33] [34] The severity of the incident was covered up at the time by the UK government, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan feared that it would harm British nuclear relations with America, and so original reports on the disaster and its health impacts were ...
The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown was the NRX reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada in 1952. [22] The worst nuclear accident to date is the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine. The accident killed approximately 30 people directly [23] and damaged approximately $7 billion of property.
The attack occurred at around 10:40 local time (11:40 Moscow time) [1] during a visit by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Ukraine, during which he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the city's port area and was to visit a building damaged in a previous attack on 2 March that killed twelve people, including five children, [2] and meet with members of the Greek ...
The International Organization for Migration says that the refugee crisis has now become the largest and fastest exodus of people in Europe since World War II. (Fox News) Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Western sanctions on Russia are akin to a "declaration of war", and warns that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine ...
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In 2021, Brazil's worst drought in almost a century threatened its electricity supply. [6] [7] Brazil relies on hydropower for two-thirds of its electricity.[8]Euractiv reported that European Commissioner for Climate Action Frans Timmermans told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that "about one fifth" of the energy price increase "can be attributed to rising CO 2 pricing on the EU's carbon ...
March 16, 2004: The Arkhangelsk explosion of 2004 was a gas explosion that killed 58 in an apartment building in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk. May 11, 2004: The Stockline Plastics factory explosion was a LPG gas explosion that killed 9 & injured 33, it also destroyed the 4 story factory.