Nuclear Power Plant Accidents & Incidents

Name every accident and incident that has occurred at nuclear power plants

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Date	Country Incident Occurred In	Incident Name
September 29, 1957	Soviet Union	Kyshtym Disaster
October 10, 1957	United Kingdom	Windscale Fire
January 3, 1961	United States	National Reactor Testing Station explosion
October 5, 1966	United States	Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station meltdown
January 21, 1969	Switzerland	Lucens Reactor loss-of-coolant incident
December 7, 1975	East Germany	Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant fire
January 5, 1976	Czechoslovakia	Jaslovske Bohunice fuel replacement malfunction
March 28, 1979	United States	Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown
September 15, 1984	United States	Six year outage at Browns Ferry Unit 2 caused by design flaws
March 9, 1985	United States	System malfunction leads suspension of operations at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
April 11, 1986	United States	Recurring problems causes emergency shutdown of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
April 26, 1986	Soviet Union	Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown
May 4, 1986	West Germany	Release of fission products by experimental reactor
December 9, 1986	United States	Surry Nuclear Power Plant feedwater pipe failure

Date	Country Incident Occurred In	Incident Name
March 31, 1987	United States	Peach Bottom units 2 & 3 shutdown due to cooling malfunctions
December 19, 1987	United States	Nine Mile Point Unit 1 shutdown due to malfunctions
March 17, 1989	United States	Calvert Cliffs units 1 & 2 shutdown due to equipment failures
October 19, 1989	Spain	Vandellos Nuclear Power Plant fire
March 1992	Russia	Sosnovy Bor Nuclear Plant leaks radioactive iodine
February 20, 1996	United States	Millstone Nuclear Power Plant units 1 & 2 shutdown due to equipment malfunctions
September 2, 1996	United States	Equipment malfunction leads to shutdown of Crystal River unit 3
September 30, 1999	Japan	Tokaimura Nuclear Accident
February 16, 2002	United States	Corrosion of reactor vessel leads to two year shutdown of Davis-Besse reactor
April 10, 2003	Hungary	Paks Nuclear Power Plant suffers collapse of fuel rods
August 9, 2004	Japan	Mihama Nuclear Power Plant steam explosion
July 25, 2006	Sweden	Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant safety systems failures
March 11, 2011	Japan	Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster
September 12, 2012	France	Marcoule Nuclear Site explosion

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