On april 26 1986 the chernobyl nuclear power plant in ukraine at the time the ussr suffered a tremendous accident during testing an explosion occurred that ended in 9 days of. The worst nuclear and radiation disasters in history chernobyl disaster pripyat ukraine level 7 chernobyl disaster undoubtedly deserves a spot on the list of the world s worst nuclear disasters of all time. One of these the mayak nuclear fuel processing plant in the russian town of ozyorsk became the site of a major disaster when the cooling system in a waste storage tank failed causing the dried.
It is the largest nuclear disaster since the chernobyl disaster of 1986 and only the second disaster along with chernobyl to. The fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the fukushima nuclear power plant following the tohoku tsunami on 11 march 2011. Fukushima cannot be regarded as a natural disaster the naiic panel s chairman.
The fukushima nuclear accident independent investigation commission naiic was the first independent investigation commission by the national diet in the 66 year history of japan s constitutional government. Though the plant could not explode the results of such a disaster would very likely. The most obvious would be a meltdown at a nuclear reactor plant.
A nuclear disaster could take several forms. A study published in 2005 by the world health organization estimates that there may eventually be up to 4 000 additional cancer deaths related to the accident among those exposed to significant radiation levels. The worst nuclear accident to date was the chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in ukraine the accident killed 31 people directly and damaged approximately 7 billion of property.
