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Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear reactor 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 major energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
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.
SL-1 accident 1961, January 3 All three of the experimental reactor crew died when the reactor went prompt critical and the core explosively vaporized. 3 Samut Prakan radiation accident: 2000 February Three deaths and ten injuries resulted when a radiation-therapy unit was dismantled. [20] 2 Tokaimura nuclear accident, Japan: 1999, September 30
Erosion of the 150-millimetre-thick (5.9 in) carbon steel reactor head at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant, in Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, in 2002, caused by a persistent leak of borated water The Hanford Site, in Benton County, Washington, USA, represents two-thirds of America's high-level radioactive waste by volume.
An accident at the Sosnovy Bor nuclear plant leaked radioactive iodine into the air through a ruptured fuel channel. February 20, 1996: Waterford, Connecticut, United States: Leaking valve forced shutdown of Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2, multiple equipment failures found. 0: 254: September 2, 1996: Crystal River, Florida, United ...
The plant has been the main U.S. site for assembling and disassembling atomic bombs since 1975. It produced its last new bomb in 1991, and has dismantled thousands of weapons retired from military ...
Earlier in the evening, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) officials stated an undisclosed incident occurred at 6:13 p.m., and while there ...
US nuclear power plants, highlighting recently and soon-to-be retired plants, as of 2018 (US EIA) The low price of natural gas in the United States since 2008 has spurred construction of gas-fired power plants as an alternative to nuclear plants. In August 2011, the head of America's largest nuclear utility said that this was not the time to ...