Chernobyl is the worst disaster to date. Clean up for the diaster involved more than 500,000 workers and data to show damage is ever increasing with more cases of disease from the harmful radiation that was released6.
The Fukushima nuclear diasters was a series of equipment failures that followed the Tohoku tsunami that swept throught the surrounding area6.
The Kyshtym diaster happened at a Nuclear fuel processing plant in the Soviet Union and ranked as level 6, and released major amounts of contiamntion that effected the people and the bodies of water close by6.
The Windscale fire had two piles of radioactive material built as part of a atomic bomb project. The core of the first pile caught fire and released enormous amounts of radioactive contamination. Numerous cancers have been linked to this diaster, and following it, milk from nearby was destroyed for months after, due to fear of high and dangerous level of radiation6.
Top 4 Worst Nuclear Disasters in History
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