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Fuente:
GreenPeace
30/12/03
Subject: Calendar of Nuclear Accidents and Events (Updated 21st March)
Calendar of Nuclear Accidents
Below is a calendar that shows the threat that humanity
faces from the atom bomb and the nuclear fuel cycle. This
calendar gives some examples of the everyday nuclear
incidents that have occurred all over the world. It
demonstrates how technological failures coupled with human
error risk public health and the environment on an almost
daily basis.
January
- 1-1992: Four tons of heavy water spilt at Rajasthan
nuclear power plant (India)
2-1993: Leak at Kozloduy nuclear power plant, release of
radioactive steam (Bulgaria)
3-1961: Explosion in reactor Idaho Falls (USA); three
people killed
4-1965: 6.5 kg plutonium sludge released from Savannah
River reprocessing plant (USA)
5-1976: Two workers killed by radioactive carbon dioxide
at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
6-1981: Accident at La Hague reprocessing plant (France)
7-1974: Explosion at Leningrad nuclear power plant
(Russia)
8-1975: Release of radioactivity from Mihama nuclear power
plant (Japan)
9-1993: Radioactive release from leaking fuel rods at
Perry nuclear power plant (USA)
10-1987: Nuclear transport accident in the UK
11-1985: In Heilbronn (Germany), a Pershing-II nuclear
missile catches fire, three people killed
12-1960: Technicians trying to restart a reactor at
Savannah River reprocessing plant almost send it out of
control (USA)
13-1964: A B-52 plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board
in Maryland (USA)
14-1969: USS Enterprise, nuclear aircraft-carrier, suffers
fires and explosions, killing 28 crew members
15-
16-1990: Loss of offsite power with multiple equipment
failures at Dresden nuclear power plant (USA)
17-1966: A B-52 plane crashes in Spain causing plutonium
contamination
18-1989: Eight workers are contaminated at Savannah River
reprocessing plant (USA)
19-1992: Radioactive leak, reactor shut-down at Kola
nuclear power plant (Russia)
20-1993: Technical failure at Paluel causes subcooling
accident (France)
21-1969: Technical failure at Swiss experimental nuclear
reactor causes release of radioactive water
22-1992: Technical failure in shut-down system at Balakovo
nuclear power plant (Russia)
23- 1978: Radioactive helium released from Colorado
reactor (USA)
24-1978: Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Cosmos-954
crashes in Canada
25-1982: Steam generator ruptures at R.E. Ginna nuclear
power plant (USA)
26-1988: Dangerous temperature rise in a nuclear reactor
on board a British submarine
27-1992: Leak causes a shut-down at Darlington nuclear
power plant (Canada)
28-1990: Pump failure during a shut-down at Gravelines
nuclear power plant (France)
29-1961: A B-52 plane carrying nuclear bombs crashes, the
bombs do not explode but three of the eight crew members
are killed (USA)
30-
31 -1996: Leakage of radiation due to human error and
technical failure at Dimitrovgrad nuclear research centre
(Russia)
February
- 1-1982: Release of 100 cubic metres of radioactive water
from Salem nuclear power plant (USA)
2-1993: Breakdown of cooling system for two hours at Kola
nuclear power plant (Russia)
3-1992: Failure of cooling pumps at Kozloduy nuclear power
plant (Bulgaria)
4-
5-1986: "Amber alert" (indicating an emergency in one
building and a threat to the rest of the plant)" at
Sellafield reprocessing plant, UK
6-1974: Explosion and radiation leak at Leningrad nuclear
power plant, three people killed (Russia)
7-
8-1991: Release of radioactivity from Fukui nuclear power
plant (Japan)
9-1991: Rupture of steam generator pipe causes release of
radioactivity at Mihama nuclear power plant (Japan)
10-1992: Technical failure in pump system at Zaporozhe
nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
11-1986: Release of 13 tonnes of radioactive carbon
dioxide from Transfynydd nuclear power plant (UK)
12-1968: A B-52 plane with nuclear bombs on board crashes
near Toronto (Canada)
13-1960: First French nuclear test
14-
15-1993: Spillage of 18,000 litres of heavy water at
Darlington nuclear power plant (Canada)
16-1973: Container filled with Cobalt-60 lost in the North
Sea
17-1984: Accident at Kozloduy nuclear power plant
(Bulgaria)
18-1988: Report of core melt in the nuclear reactor of the
Soviet Ice-Breaker "Rossiya"
19-1986: Three workers suffer contamination at the
Sellafield reprocessing plant (UK)
20-1990: Eight employees receive radiation exposure at
Point Lepreau (Canada)
21-1976: Accident at Bohunice nuclear power plant
(Slovakia)
22-1993: High pressure steam accident kills one worker and
injures two others at Fukushima nuclear power plant
(Japan)
23-1981: Accidental explosion of a Pershing-II missile in
Germany
24-1972: Accident on board Soviet nuclear-powered
submarine causes vessel to lose all power
25-1983: Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem nuclear
power plant (USA)
26-1988: Increased levels of radioactivity at Bohunice
nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
27-1983: Nuclear powered satellite falls into the Indian
Ocean
28-1992: Software failure in the control computer at
Embalse nuclear power plant (Argentina)
March
- 1-1954: Fall-out of US nuclear weapons test "Bravo"
contaminates the inhabitants of the Pacific island of
Rongelap.
2-1994: Breakdown of cooling system at Kola nuclear power
plant (Russia)
3-1992: Technical failure at Novovoronezh nuclear power
plant (Russia)
4-1977: Kozloduy nuclear power plant affected by an
earthquake (Bulgaria)
5-
6-1985: Emergency cooling system out of order at the
Grohnde nuclear power plant (Germany)
7-
8-1972: Radioactive water has to be pumped out of the
Indian Point nuclear power plant (USA)
9-1992: Fire at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
10-1956: A B-47 plane disappears with nuclear weapons on
board in the Atlantic Ocean
11-1958: A B-47 plane loses nuclear bomb in South Carolina
(USA)
12-1981: Tornado washes nuclear waste from Moruroa into
the lagoon (Pacific)
13-1986: US nuclear submarine runs aground and suffers
damage
14-1961: A B-52 plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board
in California (USA)
15-1989: Technical failure of fuel roads at Pickering
nuclear power plant (Canada)
16-
17-1984: Emergency cooling system at San Onofere nuclear
power plant fails (USA)
18-1987: Fire and release of radioactivity at Australian
nuclear research facility
19-
20-1977: Temperature increase at Rancho Seco nuclear power
plant (USA)
21-1984: Soviet nuclear submarine collides with US
aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk"
22-1975: Fire in reactor at Browns Ferry nuclear power
plant (USA)
23-
24-1992: Incident with radiation leakage, shut-down of
reactor at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
25-1992: Technical failure at Leningrad nuclear power
plant (Russia)
26-1991: Refuelling accident at Wuergassen nuclear power
plant (Germany)
27-
28-1979: Partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island
nuclear power plant (USA)
29-1992: Failure of shut-down system at Ignalina
nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
30-
31-1992: Automatic shut-down due to failure of pump system
at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
April
- 1-1989: Control rod failure at Gravelines nuclear power
plant (France)
2-1979: Two workers suffer radioactive contamination at
Tokaimura nuclear complex (Japan)
3-1960: Melting of fuel elements cause a release of
radioactivity at the Test Reactor at Waltz Mills (USA)
4-
5-
6-1993: Explosion at the Tomsk-7 nuclear complex (Russia)
7-1992: Failure of automatic shut-down system at
Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
8-1989: Soviet nuclear submarine "Komsomolets" sinks off
Norway
9-1981: US-nuclear submarine "George Washington" crashes
against a freighter ship
10-1963: US-nuclear submarine sinks with 123 crew members
in the Atlantic
11-1950: A B-29 plane crashes in New Mexico, thirteen
people killed.
12-1970: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks in the Atlantic
13-1979: Fire in the generator of the Baersbeck nuclear
power plant (Sweden)
14-1970: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks with 52 crew
members in Indian ocean
15-1983: Incident at Turkey Point nuclear power plant
(USA)
16-1992: Technical failure of reactor shut-down system at
Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
17-1970: Incident involving a vehicle at a French nuclear
test site in the South Pacific causes a plutonium spillage
into the ocean.
18-1992: Technical failure during refuelling at Kola
nuclear power plant (Russia)
19-1984: Technical failure at Sequoyah nuclear power plant
causes spillage of radioactive coolant water. (USA)
20-1973: Thousands of cubic meters of radioactive waste
flow out of Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)
21-1964: US-satellite disperses 1.2.kg plutonium into the
atmosphere.
22-1983: Reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods at
Kursk nuclear power plant (Russia)
23-1991: Lost of offsite power cause technical failure at
"Vermont Yankee" nuclear submarine (USA)
24-
25-1990: Flooding of building due to increase of coolant
level at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
26-1986: Explosion of reactor 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power
plant; the worst civilian nuclear accident to date.
27-
28-1988: Release of 5000 Curies of tritium gas from the
Bruyere le Chatel military nuclear complex (France)
29-1986: US-nuclear submarine "Atlanta" hits the ground
off Gibralta
30-1992: Breakdown of cooling system at Novovoronezh
nuclear power plant (Russia)
May
- 1-1992: Technical failure at Ignalina nuclear power plant
(Lithuania)
2-1979: Technical fault at the Oyster Creek nuclear power
plant triggers emergency shut-down (USA)
3-1974: Leakage at Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)
4-1986: Release of radiation from Hamm-Uentrop nuclear
power plant (Germany)
5-1987: Pershing nuclear missile ends up in a ditch after
a transport accident at Heilbronn (Germany)
6-1989: Fire of pump equipment at Bohunice nuclear power
plant (Slovakia)
7-1992: Failure of emergency system at Smolensk nuclear
power plant (Russia)
8-1964: First Chinese nuclear test
9-1992: Technical failure of cooling system at Hatch
nuclear power plant (USA)
10-1965: Release of eight cubic metres of cooling water
from Savannah River reprocessing plant (USA)
11-1969: Fire at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant causes
plutonium to spontaneously ignite. (USA)
12-1984: Uncontrolled power surge at Bohunice nuclear
power plant (Slovakia)
13-1992: Tube leak causes a radioactive release of 12
Curies of radioactivity from Tarapur nuclear power station
(India)
14-1986: The power lines to the Palo Verde nuclear power
plant are sabotaged (USA)
15-
16-1992: Reactor shut-down at Kola nuclear power plant
(Russia)
17-1984: Fire on board the US-nuclear submarine "Guitarro"
18-1968: Accident during launch of US satellite,
radioactive materials fall into ocean near Califiornia
coast
19-
20-1974: First Indian nuclear test
21-1968: US-nuclear submarine "Scorpion" sinks off the
Acores, 99 people die
22-1957: Human error causes a B-36 plane to release a
nuclear bomb in New Mexico
23-1958: Accident and release of radioactivity at the
Chalk River experimental reactor (Canada)
24-1968: Incident on board of Soviet nuclear submarine "K-
27", 5 crew members killed by radiation release
25-
26-1990: During refuelling, five cubic meters of
radioactive water spilled at the Fessenheim nuclear power
plant (France)
27-1993: Reactor shut-down due to breakdown of cooling
system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-1970: Collision of the US-nuclear submarine "Daniel
Boone"
29-
30-
31-
June
- 1-1991: Failure of core cooling system at Belleville
nuclear power plant (France)
2-1992: Total failure of centralised control system at the
Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)
3-1980: Computer fault causes full-scale alert for US
Military Strategic Command
4-1989: Fire in the cables of the cooling pumps at the
Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
5-1989:
6-1994: Fire at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)
7-1960: Fire in a BOMARC-rocket in New Jersey causes
plutonium release into the atmosphere (USA)
8-1992: Failure of cooling system at Kola nuclear power
plant (Russia)
9-1985: Malfunction in the cooling system at Davis Blesse
nuclear power plant (USA)
10-1985: Collision of a British nuclear submarine off the
coast of Florida (USA)
11-1989: Spent fuel element dropped in the storage pool
and damaged at Kruemmel nuclear power plant (Germany)
12-
13-
14-
15-1992: Technical failure at Sizewell nuclear power plant
(UK)
16-1988: Technical failure at Zorita nuclear power plant
(Spain)
17-1967: First Chinese hydrogen nuclear bomb test
18-1978: Release of two tons of radioactive steam from
Brunsbuettel nuclear power plant (Germany)
19-1992: Leak in pipe conducting sea water to cooling
system at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
20-1985 Collision of two trucks carrying nuclear bombs in
Scotland (UK)
21-
22-
23-1986: Twelve people receive `slight' plutonium
contamination while inspecting a store room at Tokaimura
nuclear complex (Japan)
24-1992: Technical failure of control system at Leningrad
nuclear power plant (Russia)
25-
26-1989: Fire and reactor damage in a Soviet submarine
27-1985: Explosion and steam leakage killed 14 workers at
Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-
29-1991: Power limited due to error between actual and
indicated power at Pickering nuclear power plant(Canada).
30-1983: Total loss of coolant at Embalse nuclear power
plant (Argentina)
July
- 1-1983: Technical failure causes release of Iodine-131
from Phillipsburg nuclear power plant (Germany)
2-1966: French nuclear testing in the South Pacific begins
3-1981: Fire at North Anna nuclear power plant (USA)
4-1961: Incident on board of Soviet nuclear submarine "K-
19", radiation release kills 9 crew members
5-
6-1959: US plane carrying nuclear weapons crashes and
catches on fire
7-
8-
9-1991: Flaw in cooling system at Wurgassen nuclear power
plant (Russia)
10-1991: Leakage of radiation at Bilibino nuclear power
plant (Russia)
11-
12-1993: Failure of control system at Susquehanna nuclear
power plant (USA)
13-
14-1992: Reactor shut-down due to failure of cooling
system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
15-
16-1945: First explosion of a nuclear bomb ("Trinity") in
New Mexico (USA)
17-1991: Reactor shut-down due to break of control system
at Sendai nuclear power plant (Japan)
18-1991: Steam leakage causes reactor shut-down at Paks
nuclear power plant (Hungary)
19-
20-1992: Leakage of radiation due to breakdown of cooling
system at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
21-
22-1992: Two workers contaminated at Dampierre nuclear
power plant (France)
23-
24-1989: Refuelling accident at Isar nuclear power plant
(Germany)
25-1946: US nuclear test "Baker" causes unexpected
plutonium contamination on target vessels
26-1992: Temperature rise in storage pool at Gravelines
nuclear power plant (France)
27-1956: US plane crashes into nuclear ammunition storage
in the UK
28-1957: US plane loses two nuclear bombs in the Atlantic
29-
30-1986: Human error causes the nuclear warhead to be
knocked off a Pershing rocket (Germany)
31-1993: Refuelling machine malfunctions at the Wylfa
nuclear power plant (UK)
August
- 1-1983: An engineer receives a fatal radiation dose at a
research reactor in Argentina
2-1987: Elevated radiation level after Soviet nuclear test
3-1983: Argentinean engineer dies from radiation dose
received two days earlier
4-
5-1950: B-29 plane with nuclear weapons on board crashes;
19 people killed (USA)
6-1945: Nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima
7-
8-
9-1945: Nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of
Nagasaki
10-1985: Explosion on board a Soviet nuclear submarine
11-1988: Damage detected at Atucha nuclear power plant
(Argentina)
12-
13-
14-1989: Instrumentation and control failure at Grand
Gulf nuclear power plant (USA)
15-1992:
16-1991: Eight control rods show delays in emergency shut-
down insertion time at Millstone Point nuclear power plant
(USA)
17-1991: Automatic shut-down due to technical problems at
Sendai nuclear power plant (Japan)
18-1953: First explosion of Soviet hydrogen bomb
19-1986: Flooding at the Cattenom nuclear power plant
(France)
20-1974 Incident at Beznau nuclear power plant
(Switzerland)
21-1980: Accident on board Soviet nuclear submarine,
believed to kill at least nine crew members
22-1992: Failure of shut-down system at Novovoronezh
nuclear power plant (Russia)
23-
24-
25-1984: French freighter sinks in the English Channel
with 375 tonnes of uraniumhexafluoride on board
26-1989: Technical failure at Ignalina nuclear power plant
(Lithuania)
27-1990: Cable fire causes loss of control of the position
of control rods at Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
28-1992: Fire in electro-generator at St.Alban nuclear
power plant (France)
29-1949: First explosion of Soviet atomic bomb
30-1985: Fire in a barrel of radioactive waste at
Karlsruhe nuclear complex (Germany)
31-1985: Fire at Fukushima nuclear power plant during
routine shut-down (Japan)
September
- 1-1993: Fire at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
2-
3-1974: Release of radioactive water at Los Alamos nuclear
weapons Laboratory (USA)
4-1988: Fire at Perry nuclear power plant (USA)
5-1988: Fire at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
6-1991: Incident and steam leak during refueling at
Barsebeck nuclear power plant (Sweden)
7-
8-
9-1989: Control rod failure at Olkiluoto nuclear power
plant (Finland)
10-
11-1957: 15 kgs of plutonium catch fire at Rocky Flats
nuclear weapons complex (USA)
12-1992: Leakage of radioactive water at Kola nuclear
power plant (Russia)
13-1987: 249 people are contaminated in Brazil, due to
handling discarded nuclear medical equipment, four people
subsequently die
14-1991: Leakage at Kozloduy nuclear power plant
(Bulgaria)
15-1986: Fire on board a US plane carrying nuclear weapons
16-1990: Superphenix Fast Breeder Reactor is closed down
due to technical failures (France)
17-1988: Nuclear weapons convoy road accident kills one
person (UK)
18-1988: Technical failure at Stade nuclear power plant
(Germany)
19-1984: Collision of a Soviet nuclear submarine
20-1977: US-nuclear submarine "Ray" hits the sea-bed,
three crew members are injured
21-1989: Manual shut-down of WNP nuclear power plant (USA)
22-1980: Pump failure causes accidental release of
radioactive water at La Hague reprocessing plant (France)
23-1969: Radioactive contamination of atmosphere during
the unsuccessful launch of a Soviet spaceship.
24-1973: 35 workers at the Sellafield reprocessing plant
are contaminated following a technical failure (UK)
25-1955: First Soviet underwater nuclear explosion near
Novaya Zemlya (Arctic Ocean)
26-
27-1974: Soviet nuclear-capable destroyer sinks in the
Black Sea
28-1990: Cables for reactor control and protection system
supply overheat at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
29-1957: Thousands of square miles contaminated by
accident at the Chelyabinsk nuclear complex (Russia)
30-1990: Failure of reactor core cooling system at
Palisades nuclear power plant (USA)
October
- 1-1983: Technical failure and human error cause accident
at Blayas nuclear power plant(France)
2-1968: Leakage at La Hague reprocessing plant (France)
3-1952: First UK nuclear test
4-1981: Release of 300-times the normal discharge level of
Iodine-131 at Sellafield reprocessing plant (UK)
5-1966: Partial core meltdown at the Fermi fast breeder
reactor (USA)
6-1986: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of
Bermuda
7-1984: Emergency shut-down of Paks nuclear power plant
(Hungary)
8-1985: Accidental radioactive release into the sea from
Hinkley Point nuclear power station (UK)
9-1991: Technical failure at Yugno-Ukrainskaya nuclear
power plant (Ukraine)
10-1957: Three tonnes of uranium catch fire at the
Windscale reprocessing plant (now Sellafield UK)
11-1957: US nuclear bomber crashes in Florida and catches
fire
12-
13-1977: Sea water runs into the cooling circuit of
Hunterston nuclear power plant (UK)
14-1953: Fall-out from British nuclear test "Totem"
contaminates Aborigines in the Australian desert
15-1988: French officials carry out an experiment to test
the effects of releasing 7000 Curies of radioactivity
16-1964: First Chinese nuclear test
17-1969: Fuel elements melt at St Laurent des Eaux nuclear
power plant (France)
18-1991: Technical failure at Zaporozhe nuclear power
plant (Ukraine)
19-1991: Offsite power failure at Smolensk nuclear power
plant (Russia)
20-
21-1991: Fire on board "Sceptre" nuclear submarine in
Scotland
22-1993: Instrumentation and Control failure at Saint
Alban nuclear power plant (France)
23-1989: Failure of core cooling system at Dresdan nuclear
power plant (USA)
24-
25-1991: Failure of shut-down system during refuelling at
Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
26-1991: Incident during refueling at Vogtle nuclear power
plant (USA)
27-1991: Technical failure of shut-down system at
Zaporozhe nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
28-
29-1991: Technical failure causes automatic shut-down at
Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
30-1991:
31-1986: US-nuclear submarine "Augusta" involved in
collision
November
- 1-1992: Cracks in cooling system equipment at Brunsbuttel
nuclear power plant (Germany)
2-1982: Nuclear missile transporter crashes killing one
person and injuring two others (Germany)
3-1990: Failure of core cooling equipment at Doel nuclear
power plant (Belgium)
4-1970: Explosion on board a nuclear-capable US-destroyer
kills two sailors
5-1967: UK nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
`HMS Repulse' runs aground 30 minutes after its launch
6-
7-1967: Release of radioactivity at Grenoble nuclear power
plant (France)
8-
9-1955: Core meltdown at EBR fast breeder reactor (USA)
10-
11-1988: Accident during refueling on board of Soviet
nuclear powered ice-breaker "Lenin"
12-1993: London Convention bans the dumping of nuclear
waste into the sea
13-1974: Karen Silkwood, a worker at a US nuclear plant,
dies mysteriously on her way to hand important documents
to a Trade Union Official and a journalist
14-1989: Breakdown of fuel rod control system at Oconee
nuclear power plant (USA)
15-1989: Fire on board US-nuclear submarine "Finback"
16-1983: Sellafield reprocessing plant discharges highly
radioactive wastes directly into the sea (UK)
17-
18-1991: Reactor shut-down due to technical failure at
Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
19-1980: US nuclear-missile almost launched during a drill
exercise.
20-1989: Fire in turbine equipment at Kozloduy nuclear
power plant (Bulgaria)
21-
22-
23-1991: Leak of 190,000 litres of water from cooling
system, reactor shut-down at Oconee nuclear power plant
(USA)
24-1989: Technical failure nearly causes core meltdown at
Greifswald nuclear power plant (Germany)
25-1991: Failure of cooling system causes automatic
reactor shut-down at Kursk nuclear power plant (Russia)
26-1958: B-47 plane catches fire, destroying one nuclear
weapon (USA)
27-1991: Disfunction of automatic shut-down system at
Bilibino nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-1991: Failure of control system causes reactor shut-
down at Kursk nuclear power plant (Russia)
29-1982: US nuclear submarine collides with US-destroyer
30-1975: 1.5 million Curies released from Leningrad
nuclear power plant (Russia)
December
- 1-1991: Technical failure at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant
(Russia)
2-1949: US experiment "Green Run" contaminates communities
up to 70 miles away from the Hanford nuclear weapons
complex (USA)
3-1988: Explosion at the Burghfield Atomic Weapons
Establishment (UK)
4-1990: 2 workers irradiated during refuelling at Blayais
nuclear power plant (France)
5-1965: Plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board off
the coast of Japan
6-1991: Failure of control system during refuelling causes
reactor shut-down at Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)
7-1991: Failure of cooling system at Kola nuclear power
plant (Russia)
8-1995: Fire due to leakage of sodium coolant from Monju
fast breeder reactor, Japanese nuclear industry attempts
to cover up full extent of accident, reactor shut-down
9-1986: Explosion at Surry nuclear power plant, four
people killed (USA).
10-1991: Failure of turbo-generator causes reactor shut-
down at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
11-1991: Human error causes failure of automatic reactor
shut-down equipment at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
12-1952: World's first major nuclear reactor disaster,
Chalk River experimental reactor (Canada)
13-1988: Four of the eight emergency installations
discovered out of order at Brokdorf nuclear power plant
(Germany)
14-1991: Technical failure causes automatic shut-down at
Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
15-1991: Technical failure at Kalinin nuclear power plant
(Russia)
16-1991: Technical failure at Kola nuclear power plant
(Russia)
17-1987: Severe incident at Biblis nuclear power plant
(Germany)
18-1984: Fire at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
19-1980: Plutonium transport accident in the USA
20-1990: Control element discovered damaged at
Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
21-1991: Radiation leakage at Kolskaya nuclear power plant
(Russia)
22-1987: Accidental release of 50 tonnes of water from
Atucha nuclear power plant (Argentina)
23-1988: Two control rods jammed at Blayais nuclear power
plant (France)
24-1991: Reactor shut-down due to technical failure at
Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
25-1992: Radioactive water leakage at Beloyarsk nuclear
power plant (Russia)
26-
27-1991: Automatic shut-down Balakovo nuclear power plant
(Russia)
28-1990: Incident and radiation leakage at Leningrad
nuclear power plant (Russia)
29-
30-1988: Reactor shut-down due to failure of control
equipment at Pilgrim nuclear power plant (USA)
31-1978: Fire and loss of reactor control, 8 workers
irradiated at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)
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