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After both planes took off from Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, a USAF B-52F-100-BO (No. 57-036), with two sealed-pit nuclear weapons collided at 32,000 feet (9,754 m) with a KC-135 refueling aircraft (No. 57-1513), during a refueling procedure near Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Both planes crashed killing eight crew members.
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 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania was caused by a series of failures in secondary systems at the reactor, which allowed radioactive steam to escape and resulted in the partial core meltdown of one of two reactors at the site, making it the most significant accident in U.S. history. [8] The world's worst nuclear accident has ...
The 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident was the inadvertent release of a nuclear weapon from a United States Air Force B-47 bomber over Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb, which did not have its fissile nuclear core installed at the time of the accident, impacted with the ground, and its conventional high explosives detonated ...
1962 Thor missile launch failures during nuclear weapons testing at Johnston Atoll under Operation Fishbowl; 1961 SL-1 nuclear meltdown; 1961 K-19 nuclear accident; 1959 SRE partial nuclear meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory; 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure; 1957 Kyshtym disaster; 1957 Windscale fire; 1957 Operation Plumbbob
There have also been a number of accidents involving nuclear weapons, such as crashes of nuclear armed aircraft. Despite a reduction in global nuclear tensions and major nuclear arms reductions after the end of the Cold War following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, estimated nuclear warhead stockpiles total roughly 15,000 worldwide ...
Nuclear power plant accidents: listed and ranked since 1952; Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents; ProgettoHumus – Mondo in Cammino: List updated of nuclear accidents in the history Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine; Schema-root.org: Nuclear Power Accidents 2 topics, both with a current news feed
The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. [3] The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of the wreckage", according to a later U.S. Department of Defense summary, [4] and after Fort Meade's 28th Ordnance Detachment secured them, [5] the ...