A Green Road Journal: Lists of Worst Civilian And Military Nuclear Disasters And Radioactivity Release Incidents; 174 Major Atomic Accidents Worldwide Since 1946 – Each With Over $1 Million In Damages, Mystery 2 Billion CPM Radiation Reading Washington DC 2006

Lists of Worst Civilian And Military Nuclear Disasters And Radioactivity Release Incidents; 174 Major Atomic Accidents Worldwide Since 1946 – Each With Over $1 Million In Damages, Mystery 2 Billion CPM Radiation Reading Washington DC 2006 - 174 Major Nuclear Accidents Since 1946

RACHEL MADDOW; THREE MILE ISLAND IS ONLY ONE OF MANY NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS IN THE USA, WHICH HAVE BEEN COVERED UP, DENIED, SUPPRESSED AND ALMOST NEVER TALKED ABOUT ON THE MASS MEDIA

Maddow: "Three Mile Island not even close to being only nuclear accident in USA!"

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7zVXI6DKtc4 9 min.

Go deeper into cover up around TMI.....

TMI - Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Meltdown And Radiation Release Coverup Exposed - 1 Billion Curies Released Near Harrisburg Pennsylvania
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/05/tmi-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant.html

IF A MAJOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENT HAPPENED IN THE US, LIKE FUKUSHIMA, THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS LIMITED IT'S DAMAGE PAYMENTS TO LESS THAN 1 PERCENT, AND TAXPAYERS WILL BE ON THE HOOK FOR ALL OF THE REST; WHY IS THAT?

There is almost zero accountability, transparency and responsibility in the nuclear industry. Here is the proof..

Guess who pays WHEN there is a major nuclear accident in the USA, like Fukushima?

YOU DO!

Guess who DOES NOT PAY?

The nuclear industry!

CORNELL RESEARCHER HAS FOUND AND DOCUMENTED 174 MAJOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS SINCE 1946

Time Is Short April 8, 2016 A giant list of nuclear accidents since 1946. Horrific.

'Of Disasters and Dragon Kings: A Statistical Analysis of Nuclear Power Incidents and Accidents'

"A report by Cornell University researchers Spencer Wheatley, Benjamin Sovacool, Didier Sornette entitled Of Disasters and Dragon Kings: A Statistical Analysis of Nuclear Power Incidents and Accidents has a database of 174 major atomic accidents worldwide since 1946 – each with over $1 million in damages and at least one death.

“In fact, the damage of the largest event (Fukushima; March, 2011) is equal to 60 percent of the total damage of all 174 accidents in our database since 1946. In dollar losses we compute a 50% chance that (i) a Fukushima event (or larger) occurs in the next 50 years, (ii) a Chernobyl event (or larger) occurs in the next 27 years and (iii) a TMI event (or larger) occurs in the next 10 years.”

http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02380#

LIST OF 70 PLUS NUCLEAR REACTOR MELT DOWNS

The nuclear industry and their promoters like to minimize, undercount, under measure, and limit the number of nuclear accidents that are 'officially' counted. How many nuclear reactor meltdowns and/or 'excursions' have there been globally? It turns out that the number is not 3, not 7, and not 20. The total number is over 70.

Pro nuclear apologists like to claim that there have been only 3 melt downs in the history of nuclear power and that almost no one has died, because nuclear power is so safe. Actually, there have been more than 70 nuclear plant meltdowns/excursions, and the deaths or health consequences from those meltdowns have been totally covered up and denied by the mass media.

DEATH TOLL FROM 2,400 OPEN AIR NUCLEAR TESTS; UP TO 60 MILLION DEATHS GLOBALLY

Let's start with the death toll that still continues to this day, just from the testing of nuclear weapons, shall we?

Next, let's explore via many sources how common nuclear accidents REALLY are, and how many radioactive disasters are totally covered up, denied, minimized and lied about. For a full list of all nuclear reactor meltdowns globally, click on the following link.

WHY YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS OR NUCLEAR PLANT MELT DOWNS

In the video above, Rachel Maddow goes into just a few nuclear accidents that most people have never heard about. To find out why you almost never hear about nuclear accidents, click on the following link and explore...

Art And Science Of Deception; Global Corporations And The 1%
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

56 NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS AND OVER 150 NUCLEAR INCIDENTS IN AMERICA

According to Wikipedia; "the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, the worst nuclear accident in 25 years....[1]

According to a 2010 survey of energy accidents, there have been at least 56 accidents at nuclear reactors in the United States (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage).

For a more complete list, see;

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist1.htm

Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear reactor accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define major energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.

The accidents involved meltdowns, explosions, fires, and loss of coolant, and occurred during both normal operation and extreme emergency conditions (such as droughts and earthquakes). Property damage costs include destruction of property, emergency response, environmental remediation, evacuation, lost product, fines, and court claims.[2]Because nuclear reactors are large and complex accidents onsite tend to be relatively expensive.[3]

At least 56 nuclear reactor accidents have occurred in the USA. The most serious of these U.S. accidents was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Davis-Besse has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979.[1]

The United States General Accountability Office reported more than 150 incidents from 2001 to 2006 alone of nuclear plants not performing within acceptable safety guidelines. In 2006, it said: "Since 2001, the ROP has resulted in more than 4,000 inspection findings concerning nuclear power plant licensees’ failure to fully comply with NRC regulations and industry standards for safe plant operation, and NRC has subjected more than 75 percent (79) of the 103 operating plants to increased oversight for varying periods".[4] Seventy-one percent of all recorded major nuclear accidents, including meltdowns, explosions, fires, and loss of coolants, occurred in the United States, and they happened during both normal operations as well as emergency situations such as floods, droughts, and earthquakes.[5]

Many open air tests were done that released radiation; such as nuclear rocket tests, etc.

http://www.inl.gov/proving-the-principle/appendices.pdf

History

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 encouraged private corporations in the United States to build nuclear reactors and a significant learning phase followed with many early partial core meltdowns and accidents at experimental reactors and research facilities.[6] This led to the introduction of the Price-Anderson Act in 1957, which was "an implicit admission that nuclear power provided risks that producers were unwilling to assume without federal backing".[6]

Nuclear reactor accidents continued into the 1960s with a small test reactor exploding at the Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One in Idaho Falls in January 1961 resulting in three deaths which were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations.[7] There was also a partial meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan in 1966.[6]

The large size of nuclear reactors ordered during the late 1960s raised new safety questions and created fears of a severe reactor accident that would send large quantities of radiation into the environment. In the early 1970s, a highly contentious debate over the performance of emergency core cooling systems in nuclear plants, designed to prevent a core meltdown that could lead to the "China syndrome", received coverage in the popular media and technical journals.[8][9]

In 1976, four nuclear engineers—three from GE and one from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission—resigned, stating that nuclear power was not as safe as their superiors were claiming.[10][11] These men were engineers who had spent most of their working life building reactors,[12][13] and they testified to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that:

"the cumulative effect of all design defects and deficiencies in the design, construction and operations of nuclear power plants makes a nuclear power plant accident, in our opinion, a certain event. The only question is when, and where.[10]

THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT

President Jimmy Carter leaving Three Mile Island for Middletown, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1979

On March 28 1979, equipment failures and operator error contributed to loss of coolant and a partial core meltdown of Unit 2's pressurized water reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania.[14] The scope and complexity of this reactor accident became clear over the course of five days, as a number of agencies at the local, state and federal levels tried to solve the problem and decide whether the ongoing accident required an emergency evacuation, and to what extent.

Cleanup started in August 1979 and officially ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of about $1 billion.[15] Benjamin K. Sovacool, in his 2007 preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, estimated that the TMI accident caused a total of $2.4 billion in property damages.[16]

The TMI accident forced regulatory and operational improvements on a reluctant industry, but it also increased opposition to nuclear power.[19] The accident triggered protests around the world.[20]

LIST OF ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS

Main article: Nuclear power accidents by country

See also: Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents

Further information: Nuclear safety in the United States#Emergency ClassificationsNuclear reactor accidents in the U.S.[3][21]

Date	Location	Desc.		$
November 29, 1955	Idaho Falls, Idaho, US	Power excursion with partial core meltdown at National Reactor Testing Station's EBR-1 Experimental Breeder Reactor I	0	5	M D
July 26, 1959	Simi Valley, California, USA	Partial core meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory’s Sodium Reactor Experiment	0	32	M D
January 3, 1961	Idaho Falls, Idaho, US	Explosion at National Reactor Testing Station's SL-1 Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number On	3	22	M D
July 24, 1964	Charlestown, Rhode Island, United States	An error by a worker at a United Nuclear Corporation fuel facility led to an accidental criticality	1	??
October 5, 1966	Monroe, Michigan, USA	Sodium cooling system malfunctions at Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor causing partial core meltdown	0	19	M D
July 16, 1971	Cordova, Illinois, USA	An electrician is electrocuted by a live cable at the Quad Cities Unit 1 reactor on the Mississippi River	1	1
August 11, 1973	Covert Township, Michigan, USA	Steam generator leak at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station causes manual shutdown of pressurized water reactor	0	10
March 22, 1975	Athens, Alabama, USA	Fire burns for seven hours and damages more than 1600 control cables for three nuclear reactors at Browns Ferry, disabling core cooling systems	0	240
November 5, 1975	Brownville, Nebraska, USA	Hydrogen gas explosion damages the Cooper Nuclear Facility’s Boiling Water Reactor and an auxiliary building	0	13
June 10, 1977	Waterford, Connecticut, USA	Hydrogen gas explosion damages three buildings and forces shutdown of Millstone-1 Boiling Water Reactor	0	15
February 4, 1979	Surry, Virginia, USA	Surry Unit 2 shut down in response to failing tube bundles in steam generators	0	12
March 28, 1979	Middletown, Pennsylvania, US	Loss of coolant and partial core meltdown, see Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects	0	2,400	M. D.
November 22, 1980	San Clemente, California, USA	Worker cleaning breaker cubicles at San Onofre Pressurized Water Reactor contacts an energized line and is electrocuted	1	1
January 25, 1982	Ontario, New York, USA	Ginna Nuclear Generating Station(then operated by Rochester Gas & Electric now by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group) experiences a steam tube rupture, releasing radioactivity into the environment.	0	1
February 26, 1982	San Clemente, California, USA	Southern California Company shuts down San Onofre Unit 1 out of concerns about earthquake	0	1
March 20, 1982	Scriba, New York, USA	Recirculation system piping fails at Nine Mile Point Unit 1, forcing two year shutdown	0	45
March 25, 1982	Buchanan, New York, USA	Damage to steam generator tubes and main generator resulting in a shut down Indian Point Energy Center Unit 3 for more than a year	0	56
June 18, 1982	Seneca, South Carolina, USA	Feedwater heat extraction line fails at Oconee 2 Pressurised Water Reactor, damaging thermal cooling system	0	10
February 12, 1983	Forked River, New Jersey, USA	Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station fails safety inspection, forced to shut down for repairs	0	32
February 26, 1983	Fort Pierce, Florida, USA	Damaged thermal shield and core barrel support at St. Lucie Unit 1, necessitating 13-month shutdown	0	54
September 15, 1984	Athens, Alabama, US	Safety violations, operator error, and design problems force six year outage at Browns Ferry Unit 2	0	110
March 9, 1985	Athens, Alabama, US	Instrumentation systems malfunction during start-up, which led to suspension of operations at all three Browns Ferry Units	0	1,830
June 9, 1985	Oak Harbor, Ohio, US	Loss of feedwater event at Davis-Besse reactor after main pumps shut down and auxiliary pumps tripped due to operator error. NRC review determines site area emergency should have been declared	0	?
April 11, 1986	Plymouth, Massachusetts, US	Recurring equipment problems force emergency shutdown of Boston Edison’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant	0	1,001
March 31, 1987	Delta, Pennsylvania, US	Peach Bottom units 2 and 3 shutdown due to cooling malfunctions and unexplained equipment problems	0	400
July 15, 1987	Burlington, Kansas, USA	Safety inspector dies from electrocution after contacting a mislabeled wire at Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station	1	1
December 19, 1987	Scriba, New York, US	Malfunctions force Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation to shut down Nine Mile Point Unit 1	0	150
March 29, 1988	Burlington, Kansas, USA	A worker at the Wolf Creek Generating Station falls through an unmarked manhole and electrocutes himself when trying to escape	1	1
September 10, 1988	Surry, Virginia, USA	Refuelling cavity seal fails and destroys internal pipe system at Surry Unit 2, forcing 12-month outage	0	9
March 5, 1989	Tonopah, Arizona, USA	Atmospheric dump valves fail at Palo Verde Unit 1, leading to main transformer fire and emergency shutdown	0	14
March 17, 1989	Lusby, Maryland, US	Inspections at Calvert Cliff Units 1 and 2 reveal cracks at pressurized heater sleeves, forcing extended shutdowns	0	120
November 17, 1991	Scriba, New York, USA	Safety and fire problems force shut down of the FitzPatrick nuclear reactor for 13 months	0	5
April 21, 1992	Southport, North Carolina, USA	NRC forces shut down of Brunswick Units 1 and 2 after emergency diesel generators fail	0	2
February 3, 1993	Bay City, Texas, USA	Auxiliary feed-water pumps fail at South Texas Project Units 1 and 2, prompting rapid shutdown of both reactors	0	3
February 27, 1993	Buchanan, New York, USA	New York Power Authority shuts down Indian Point Energy Center Unit 3 after AMSAC system fails	0	2
March 2, 1993	Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, USA	Equipment failures and broken pipes cause shut down of Sequoyah Unit 1	0	3
December 25, 1993	Newport, Michigan, USA	Shut down of Fermi Unit 2 after main turbine experienced major failure due to improper maintenance	0	67
14 January 1995	Wiscasset, Maine, USA	Steam generator tubes unexpectedly crack at Maine Yankee nuclear reactor; shut down of the facility for a year	0	62
May 16, 1995	Salem, New Jersey, USA	Ventilation systems fail at Salem Units 1 and 2	0	34
February 20, 1996	Waterford, Connecticut, US	Leaking valve forces shutdown Millstone Nuclear Power PlantUnits 1 and 2, multiple equipment failures found	0	?
May 15, 1996	Morris, Illinois, US	Plunging water levels around the nuclear fuel in the reactor's core prompt shut down at Dresden Generating Station	0	?
September 2, 1996	Crystal River, Florida, US	Balance-of-plant equipment malfunction forces shutdown and extensive repairs at Crystal River Unit 3	0	384
September 5, 1996	Clinton, Illinois, USA	Reactor recirculation pump fails, prompting shut down of Clinton boiling water reactor	0	38
September 20, 1996	Seneca, Illinois, USA	Service water system fails and results in closure of LaSalle Units 1 and 2 for more than 2 years	0	71
September 9, 1997	Bridgman, Michigan, USA	Ice condenser containment systems fail at Cook Units 1 and 2	0	11
May 25, 1999	Waterford, Connecticut, USA	Steam leak in feed-water heater causes manual shutdown and damage to control board annunicator at the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant	0	7
September 29, 1999	Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey, USA	Major Freon leak at Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station causes ventilation train chiller to trip, releasing toxic gas and damaging the cooling system	0	2
February 15, 2000	Buchanan, New York, USA	NRC Alert issued after steam tube rupture Indian Point Unit 2^[22]	0	2
February 16, 2002	Oak Harbor, Ohio, US	Severe boric acid corrosion of reactor head forces 24-month outage of Davis-Besse reactor	0	605
January 15, 2003	Bridgman, Michigan, USA	A fault in the main transformer at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station causes a fire that damages the main generator and back-up turbines	0	10
June 16, 2005	Braidwood, Illinois, USA	Exelon’s Braidwood nuclear station leaks tritium and contaminates local water supplies	0	41
August 4, 2005	Buchanan, New York, USA	Entergy’s Indian Point Nuclear Plant leaks tritium and strontium into underground lakes from 1974 to 2005		30
March 6, 2006	Erwin, Tennessee, USA	Nuclear Fuel Services plant spills 35 litres of highly enriched uranium, necessitating 7-month shutdown	0	98
September, 2009	Crystal River, Florida, USA	When cutting into Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant containment building to create a large opening for the replacement of the Steam generator (nuclear power) the structure was severely cracked resulting in the permanent closure of the facility.	0	1K
February 1, 2010	Vernon, Vermont, US	Deteriorating underground pipes from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant leak radioactive tritium into groundwater supplies	0	700
July 15, 2011	Morris, Illinois, US	Chemical leak of sodium hypochlorite restricted access to a vital area that houses plant cooling water pumps at Dresden Generating Station	0	?
January 30, 2012	Byron, Illinois, US	Unusual Incident reported at Byron Nuclear Generating Station. Loss of off-site power caused unit 2 to run a shut down cycle and release tritium steam into the atmosphere	0	Und.
March 31, 2013	Russellville, Arkansas, US	One worker was killed and two others injured when part of a generator fell as it was being moved at the Arkansas Nuclear One.

2 BILLION CPM EPA READING POINTS AT UNEXPLAINED AND COVERED UP NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SOMEWHERE INSIDE OR NEAR WASHINGTON DC, THAT HAPPENED ON 7/24/2006

The EPA monitors measured a huge gamma radiation release in or around Washington DC, on 7/24/2006. This HUGE radiation release generated a reading over 2 BILLION CPM; specifically of 2,147,483,647 CPM ionizing radiation reading. Where did this come from?

There was no news release, no announcement and the NRC was very quiet about it.

Was it a nuclear reactor accident, totally covered up?

Was it a nuclear ship releasing a massive amount of radiation?

Was it a medical radiation accident in a hospital, near the EPA monitor?

Was it a release from nuclear materials being transported and spilled or broken open?

Was it a secret but covered up release of ionizing radiation via a gas release, inside the city, by a foreign power?

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