The Chernobyl disaster Catastrophe is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history , both in terms of cost Cost and casualties Catastrophe .

on the first day of the conflict , israel also bombed Attack the only electrical power plant in the gaza strip .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Orgreave was a violent Violence confrontation on 18 June 1984 between police and pickets at a British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) coking plant in Orgreave , in Rotherham , South Yorkshire .

It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history .

The mechanical failures were compounded Cause_to_amalgamate by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize Know the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate Cause_to_make_progress training Practice and human factors , such as human-computer interaction design oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant 's user interface .

The mechanical failures were compounded Cause_to_amalgamate by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize Know the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate Cause_to_make_progress training Practice and human factors , such as human-computer interaction design oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant 's user interface .

In October 1861 , the Confederates constructed Building batteries at Evansport ( now downtown Quantico , consisted of two batteries on the river bank , and another inland ) , a CSA field battery located at the mouth of Chopawamsic Creek where it empties to the Potomac ( now the Marine Corps Air Facility ) , Shipping Point ( now Hospital Point on Quantico , number of guns unknown ) , Freestone Point ( a CSA four-gun battery on the shore of the Potomac River , now within Leesylvania State Park ) , and Cockpit Point ( near the current asphalt plant , consisted of six guns ( one heavy gun ) in four batteries , a powder magazine , and rear rifle pits , on top of a high cliff known as Possum Nose ) .

On 23 November 1973 , at 7:30 `` Argo 16 '' took off Departing from the airport of Venice , arrived at Arriving the altitude of 2,500 feet , then fell Motion_directional and crashed Catastrophe into the Montefibre plant of Marghera , located Know in an industrial park close the airport .

The Williams Olefins Plant explosion occurred Presence on June 13 , 2013 at a petrochemical plant located in Geismar , an unincorporated and largely industrial area southeast of Baton Rouge , Louisiana .

Senator Troy Brown [ D-Napoleonville ] , who was at his home five miles from the plant when the blast occurred Coming_to_be , said Statement , `` For about a good two to three seconds , it felt Change_sentiment like an earthquake . ''

A shelter-in-place order was issued Statement to residences and businesses within a two-mile ( 3.2 km ) radius of the plant .

However , it was reported Reporting by South Korean media in December 2012 that he had died Death in a fit of rage over construction faults at a crucial power plant project .

The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion Attack occurred Coming_to_be on December 13 , 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International , Inc. , Port Neal Complex , 16 miles south of Sioux City , Iowa , United States .

The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion Attack occurred Coming_to_be on December 13 , 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International , Inc. , Port Neal Complex , 16 miles south of Sioux City , Iowa , United States .

Four workers at the plant were killed Killing by the explosion , and eighteen others were injured Bodily_harm .

A high-voltage line running adjacent to the plant and over the Missouri River was damaged Damaging , disrupting Hindering power in the neighboring state of Nebraska .

An investigation Criminal_investigation conducted Action by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) concluded in 1996 that the explosion Attack was initiated Process_start by an accelerated thermal decomposition reaction Response as `` a direct result of unsafe operating Being_in_operation procedures and conditions '' at the plant .

The EPA had conducted Action a safety audit at the plant just eight months prior to the explosion .

The plant was Iowa 's largest producer of nitrogen-based fertilizers and its loss Earnings_and_losses contributed Supply to a national 50 % increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in the cost Cost of fertilizer by the following year .

Protests Protest were ignited Causation over plans Arranging to expand Expansion a coal-fired power plant Placing in the town—a plan Arranging that residents opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act , arguing Quarreling that existing Presence coal-fired plants had caused Causation environmental and health damage Damaging .

tensions cooled by 23 december , after communist party Participation officials declared Expressing_publicly that the plant expansion Expansion plans Arranging would be temporarily suspended Process_end , and authorities agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to release Releasing detained Arrest protesters .

The Vita Cortex sit-in was a peaceful protest at the Vita Cortex plant on the Kinsale Road in Cork , Ireland , which began Process_start on 16 December 2011 after workers were made Manufacturing redundant without pay with immediate effect .

For more than ten days , 40 per cent of its population were without running Motion water after a treatment plant Building was affected Influence by several metres of flood water .

Brazil 's only functioning nuclear power plant , Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto , is also located within the municipality : plans Arranging were made Creating for a temporary shutdown , as blocked roads would make Causation any evacuation Motion difficult or impossible in the event of an incident at the plant .

Brazil 's only functioning nuclear power plant , Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto , is also located within the municipality : plans Arranging were made Creating for a temporary shutdown , as blocked roads would make Causation any evacuation Motion difficult or impossible in the event of an incident at the plant .

The earthquake generated Creating a 14-meter-high tsunami that arrived Arriving 46 minutes later , sweeping Scouring over the plant 's seawall and flooding Destroying the plant 's lower grounds around the Units 1-4 reactor buildings with sea water , which filled Filling the basements and knocked out the emergency generators .

The earthquake generated Creating a 14-meter-high tsunami that arrived Arriving 46 minutes later , sweeping Scouring over the plant 's seawall and flooding Destroying the plant 's lower grounds around the Units 1-4 reactor buildings with sea water , which filled Filling the basements and knocked out the emergency generators .

In the days after the accident , radiation released to the atmosphere forced Causation the government to declare Expressing_publicly an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant , culminating Process_end in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius .

All told , some 154,000 residents evacuated Escaping from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused Causation by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors .

The plant 's operator has since built Building new walls along the coast and also created Creating a 1.5-kilometer-long `` ice wall '' of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water .

An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years , plant management estimate .

An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years , plant management estimate .

on 5 july 2012 , the national diet of japan fukushima nuclear accident independent investigation commission ( unk ) found Coming_to_believe that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable , and that the plant operator , tokyo electric power company ( tepco ) , had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment , preparing GetReady for containing collateral damage , and developing Coming_to_be evacuation plans .

The Bhopal disaster Catastrophe , also referred Name_conferral to as the Bhopal gas tragedy , was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited ( UCIL ) pesticide plant in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India .

The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant .

A subsequent investigation Criminal_investigation by the Chinese authorities found Know that the plant had been lacking many major safety features and was severely below regulation benchmarks , with the direct cause Causation of the accident Catastrophe being attributed Causation to inappropriate use Using of substandard equipment .

They were reportedly caused Causation by `` a temporary system balance at 1:29 a.m. due to a sudden plant outage . ''