Flashback: Nuclear-accidents

1957 |

Kyshtym, USSR | Explosion in waste tank

1957 |

Windscale, UK | Fire in a reactor core

1979 |

Three Mile Island, USA, | Release of radioactive gases

1980 |

Saint Laurent des Eaux, France | Melting of one channel- no external release

1986 |

Chernobyl, USSR | Full blown meltdown

2006 |

Forsmark, Sweden | system failure

1989 |

Vandellos, Spain, | Near accident caused by fire

1993 |

Cadarache, France, | Spread of contamination

1999 |

Tokaimura, Japan | Fatal over-exposures of workers

2005 |

Sellafield, UK | Release of radioactive material

2005 |

Atucha, Argentina, | Over-exposure of a worker Emergency power supply.