Nuclear accidents
Serious accidents in nuclear power plants have rarely occurred to date. However, when they do happen, the consequences for health and the environment are devastating. How did the reactor disasters in Chernobyl and Fukushima come about?
In the history of the civil utilisation of nuclear energy there have also been accidents in nuclear facilities. The causes of the accidents have very much differed. Nuclear accidents can, for example, be caused by the failure of technical components, by human error or by natural disasters. As a result of a nuclear a significant level of radioactive substances is released. This can effect health and environment.
The most known nuclear accidents leading to massive releases of radioactive substances into the environment occurred in Chernobyl/Ukraine in 1986 and in Fukushima/Japan in 2011.
