Nuclear Power Plant Explosions In The World

Nuclear is the worlds second largest source of low carbon power 29 of the total in 2018.

Nuclear fission kinetic energy first world war book. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate electricity for a power gridall commercial nuclear reactors use nuclear fissionas of april 2020 there are 440 operable power reactors in the world with a combined electrical capacity of 390 gw. Nuclear energy now provides about 10 of the worlds electricity from about 440 power reactors. Nuclear power in the world today updated october 2020 the first commercial nuclear power stations started operation in the 1950s.

The worst nuclear accident to date was the chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in ukrainethe accident killed 31 people directly and damaged approximately 7 billion of property. Massive amounts of radiation escaped and spread across the western soviet union and europe. The site is on japans pacific coast in northeastern fukushima prefecture about 100 km 60 miles south of sendai.

It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and was caused by one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seventhe maximum severityon the international. It occurred on april 26 1986 when a sudden surge in power during a reactor systems test resulted in an explosion and fire that destroyed unit 4. The fast breeder monju nuclear power plant sodium leak.

2 which presents the most recent reactor data available to the iaea. A study published in 2005 by the world health organization estimates that there may eventually be up to 4000 additional cancer deaths related to the accident among those exposed to significant radiation levels. 4 reactor in the chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of pripyat in the north of the ukrainian ssr.

It contains summarized information as of the end of 2019 on power reactors operating under construction and shut down as well as performance data on reactors operating in the iaea member states. The chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on saturday 26 april 1986 at the no. The tokaimura nuclear reprocessing plant fire and explosion.

Fukushima accident also called fukushima nuclear accident or fukushima daiichi nuclear accident accident in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one plant in northern japan the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. 37 workers were exposed to low doses of radiation. The explosions and nuclear fuel rods melting at japans fukushima nuclear power plant following the sendai earthquake and tsunami last week have caused fears of what will happen next.

This is a list of all the commercial nuclear reactors in the world sorted by country with operational status.