Nuclear accidents:

We should not forget that respect comes before personal interest.
Karmic laws and consequences, are often so expensive and painful that we should take care about bad intentions,
before they become bad actions and deeds. Just to remind you what happened…..    

 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

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)

31 -1996: Leakage of radiation due to human error and technical failure at Dimitrovgrad nuclear research centre (Russia)

13-1960: First French nuclear test

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)

  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)

 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

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)

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)

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)

31-1992: Automatic shut-down due to failure of pump system at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)

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)

 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)

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.

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)

 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)

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

  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

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"

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)

  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)

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)

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)

  14-1992: Reactor shut-down due to failure of cooling system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)

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)

20-1992: Leakage of radiation due to breakdown of cooling system at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)

22-1992: Two workers contaminated at Dampierre nuclear power plant (France)

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

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)

  14-1989: Instrumentation and control failure at Grand Gulf nuclear power plant (USA)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

29-1991: Technical failure causes automatic shut-down at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)

31-1986: US-nuclear submarine "Augusta" involved in collision

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)

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)

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

 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)

27-1991: Automatic shut-down Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)

 28-1990: Incident and radiation leakage at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)

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)

 6-1945: Nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima

 9-1945: Nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki

 2-1949: US experiment "Green Run" contaminates communities up to 70 miles away from the Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)

 5-1950: B-29 plane with nuclear weapons on board crashes; 19 people killed (USA)

 11-1950: A B-29 plane crashes in New Mexico, thirteen people killed.

 2-1968: Leakage at La Hague reprocessing plant (France) 3-1952: First UK nuclear test

 12-1952: World's first major nuclear reactor disaster, Chalk River experimental reactor (Canada)

1-1954: Fall-out of US nuclear weapons test "Bravo" contaminates the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Rongelap.

 9-1955: Core meltdown at EBR fast breeder reactor (USA)

 10-1956: A B-47 plane disappears with nuclear weapons on board in the Atlantic Ocean

 10-1957: Three tonnes of uranium catch fire at the Windscale reprocessing plant (now Sellafield UK)

 11-1957: 15 kgs of plutonium catch fire at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons complex (USA)

 11-1957: US nuclear bomber crashes in Florida and catches fire

 11-1958: A B-47 plane loses nuclear bomb in South Carolina (USA)

 6-1959: US plane carrying nuclear weapons crashes and catches on fire

 3-1960: Melting of fuel elements cause a release of radioactivity at the Test Reactor at Waltz Mills (USA)

 7-1960: Fire in a BOMARC-rocket in New Jersey causes plutonium release into the atmosphere (USA)

 12-1960: Technicians trying to restart a reactor at Savannah River reprocessing plant almost send it out of control (USA)

 3-1961: Explosion in reactor Idaho Falls (USA); three people killed

 4-1961: Incident on board of Soviet nuclear submarine "K- 19", radiation release kills 9 crew members

 10-1963: US-nuclear submarine sinks with 123 crew members in the Atlantic

 8-1964: First Chinese nuclear test

 5-1965: Plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board off the coast of Japan

 10-1965: Release of eight cubic metres of cooling water from Savannah River reprocessing plant (USA)

 5-1966: Partial core meltdown at the Fermi fast breeder reactor (USA)

 5-1967: UK nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine `HMS Repulse' runs aground 30 minutes after its launch

 7-1967: Release of radioactivity at Grenoble nuclear power plant (France)

 12-1968: A B-52 plane with nuclear bombs on board crashes near Toronto (Canada)

 11-1969: Fire at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant causes plutonium to spontaneously ignite. (USA)

 4-1970: Explosion on board a nuclear-capable US-destroyer kills two sailors

 12-1970: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks in the Atlantic

 8-1972: Radioactive water has to be pumped out of the Indian Point nuclear power plant (USA)

 3-1974: Leakage at Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)

 3-1974: Release of radioactive water at Los Alamos nuclear weapons Laboratory (USA)

 6-1974: Explosion and radiation leak at Leningrad nuclear power plant, three people killed (Russia)

 7-1974: Explosion at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)

 8-1975: Release of radioactivity from Mihama nuclear power plant (Japan)

 5-1976: Two workers killed by radioactive carbon dioxide at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)

 4-1977: Kozloduy nuclear power plant affected by an earthquake (Bulgaria)

 2-1979: Two workers suffer radioactive contamination at Tokaimura nuclear complex (Japan)

 2-1979: Technical fault at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant triggers emergency shut-down (USA)

 3-1980: Computer fault causes full-scale alert for US Military Strategic Command

 2-1966: French nuclear testing in the South Pacific begins 3-1981: Fire at North Anna nuclear power plant (USA)

 4-1981: Release of 300-times the normal discharge level of Iodine-131 at Sellafield reprocessing plant (UK)

 6-1981: Accident at La Hague reprocessing plant (France)

 9-1981: US-nuclear submarine "George Washington" crashes against a freighter ship

 12-1981: Tornado washes nuclear waste from Moruroa into the lagoon (Pacific)

1-1982: Release of 100 cubic metres of radioactive water from Salem nuclear power plant (USA)

 2-1982: Nuclear missile transporter crashes killing one person and injuring two others (Germany)

1-1983: Technical failure causes release of Iodine-131 from Phillipsburg nuclear power plant (Germany)

1-1983: An engineer receives a fatal radiation dose at a research reactor in Argentina

1-1983: Technical failure and human error cause accident at Blayas nuclear power plant(France)

 3-1983: Argentinean engineer dies from radiation dose received two days earlier

 7-1984: Emergency shut-down of Paks nuclear power plant (Hungary)

 12-1984: Uncontrolled power surge at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)

 6-1985: Emergency cooling system out of order at the Grohnde nuclear power plant (Germany)

 8-1985: Accidental radioactive release into the sea from Hinkley Point nuclear power station (UK)

 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)

 10-1985: Explosion on board a Soviet nuclear submarine

 11-1985: In Heilbronn (Germany), a Pershing-II nuclear missile catches fire, three people killed

 4-1986: Release of radiation from Hamm-Uentrop nuclear power plant (Germany)

 5-1986: "Amber alert" (indicating an emergency in one building and a threat to the rest of the plant)" at Sellafield reprocessing plant, UK

 6-1986: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Bermuda

 9-1986: Explosion at Surry nuclear power plant, four people killed (USA).

 11-1986: Release of 13 tonnes of radioactive carbon dioxide from Transfynydd nuclear power plant (UK)

 2-1987: Elevated radiation level after Soviet nuclear test

 5-1987: Pershing nuclear missile ends up in a ditch after a transport accident at Heilbronn (Germany)

 10-1987: Nuclear transport accident in the UK

 3-1988: Explosion at the Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK)

 4-1988: Fire at Perry nuclear power plant (USA)

 5-1988: Fire at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)

 11-1988: Damage detected at Atucha nuclear power plant (Argentina)

 11-1988: Accident during refueling on board of Soviet nuclear powered ice-breaker "Lenin"

1-1989: Control rod failure at Gravelines nuclear power plant (France)

 4-1989: Fire in the cables of the cooling pumps at the Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)

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 6-1989: Fire of pump equipment at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)

 8-1989: Soviet nuclear submarine "Komsomolets" sinks off Norway

 9-1989: Control rod failure at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant (Finland)

 11-1989: Spent fuel element dropped in the storage pool and damaged at Kruemmel nuclear power plant (Germany)

 3-1990: Failure of core cooling equipment at Doel nuclear power plant (Belgium)

 4-1990: 2 workers irradiated during refuelling at Blayais nuclear power plant (France)

1-1991: Failure of core cooling system at Belleville nuclear power plant (France)

1-1991: Technical failure at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)

 6-1991: Incident and steam leak during refueling at Barsebeck nuclear power plant (Sweden)

 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)

 8-1991: 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)

 9-1991: Flaw in cooling system at Wurgassen nuclear power plant (Russia)

 9-1991: Technical failure at Yugno-Ukrainskaya nuclear power plant (Ukraine)

 10-1991: Leakage of radiation at Bilibino nuclear power plant (Russia)

 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)

1-1992: Four tons of heavy water spilt at Rajasthan nuclear power plant (India)

1-1992: Technical failure at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)

1-1992: Cracks in cooling system equipment at Brunsbuttel nuclear power plant (Germany)

 2-1992: Total failure of centralised control system at the Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)

 3-1992: Failure of cooling pumps at Kozloduy nuclear power plant (Bulgaria)

 3-1992: Technical failure at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)

 7-1992: Failure of automatic shut-down system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)

 7-1992: Failure of emergency system at Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)

 8-1992: Failure of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)

 9-1992: Fire at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)

 9-1992: Technical failure of cooling system at Hatch nuclear power plant (USA)

 10-1992: Technical failure in pump system at Zaporozhe nuclear power plant (Ukraine)

 12-1992: Leakage of radioactive water at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)

1-1993: Fire at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)

 2-1993: Leak at Kozloduy nuclear power plant, release of radioactive steam (Bulgaria)

 2-1993: Breakdown of cooling system for two hours at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)

 6-1993: Explosion at the Tomsk-7 nuclear complex (Russia)

 9-1993: Radioactive release from leaking fuel rods at Perry nuclear power plant (USA)

 12-1993: Failure of control system at Susquehanna nuclear power plant (USA)

 12-1993: London Convention bans the dumping of nuclear waste into the sea

 2-1994: Breakdown of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)

 6-1994: Fire at Beloyarsk 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

 21-1964: US-satellite disperses 1.2.kg plutonium into the atmosphere.

 30-1975: 1.5 million Curies released from Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)