Nuclear accidentsView a fullscreen Google map of nuclear accidents since 1952. Read the article, with a list in table format for Nuclear power plant accidents: listed and ranked since 1952. Before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979 and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine) in 1986.
Aerial photo of the cooling towers of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Metsamor; photo by Bouarf CC BY-SA-3.0 |
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Three Mile IslandFind information on what happended at Three Mile Island from the World Nuclear Association or the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where there is an animated diagram of the sequence of events. The Smithsonian—National Museum of American History has a page called ‘The Inside Story’. ChernobylFind scientific facts on the Chernobyl nuclear accident divided into short questions and answers, detailed information, and authorative references and sources. Read a series of stories about Chernobyl 30 years later. Fukushima DaiichiWatch a video that explains the chain of events that caused problems in the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan (Youtube, here is another version). Consider the question: Would a new nuclear plant have fared better than Fukushima? MetsamorAre there other nuclear accidents waiting to happen? Consider the case of the Metsamor nuclear reactor in Armenia (photo left). |
