In 1957, in an English seaside town, a new type of disaster occurred when a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear reactors. The fire, at the two-reactor facility in Cumbria (now Sellafield), was due to poor design and gross mismanagement, leading to deadly consequences. The incident became embroiled in Cold War-era secrecy and provedContinue reading “The Windscale Nuclear Disaster – Britain’s Chernobyl”
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America’s Chernobyl – Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear incident is the closest the United States ever came to a Chernobyl or Fukushima-level nuclear disaster. In March 1979, a series of human and mechanical errors caused the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. It resulted in a partial meltdown of the reactor core, and a release of dangerousContinue reading “America’s Chernobyl – Three Mile Island”
The Legacy of Russia’s Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
The greatest nuclear disaster the Earth has ever known, was sworse Three Mile Island, worse than Japan’s Fukushima.
Podcast: The Lingering Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster
The greatest nuclear disaster the Earth has ever known, worse than even Japan’s Fukushima, or the U.S. Three Mile Island, began innocently enough in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. A simple safety test was about to be performed that wouldContinue reading “Podcast: The Lingering Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster”