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The plant with seven units is the largest single nuclear power station in the world, which now again is shut down due to the Fukushima accident. [47] 0: 1 Dec 2009: Hamaoka, Japan: Leakage accident of radioactive water. 34 workers were exposed to radiation: 0: Mar 2011: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan: The world's second INES 7 accident.
Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1, initially the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor in the western United States at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) in Idaho about forty miles (65 km) west of Idaho Falls, now the Idaho National Laboratory.
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.
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.
1993 Tomsk-7 accident at the Reprocessing Complex in Seversk, Russia, when a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas (INES level 4). [5] 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident; 1987 Goiânia accident; 1986 Chernobyl disaster and Effects of the Chernobyl disaster
Fukushima nuclear disaster: 2011 March In 2018, 1 cancer death of a man who worked at the plant at the time of the accident was attributed to radiation exposure by a Japanese government panel. [8] [9] It has been suggested that 2,202 died as a result of the stresses of evacuation. [10] The overall death count as a result of the accident is ...
Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, the longest-serving chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, called the second test "the world's first nuclear disaster." [5] A third test, Charlie, was cancelled due to concerns over the lingering radiation from Baker's detonation. The second series of tests in 1954 was codenamed Operation Castle.
The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979