Statistics for Nuclear Power Plant Accidents & Incidents

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Date	Country Incident Occurred In	Incident Name	% Correct
October 10, 1957	United Kingdom	Windscale Fire	100%
September 29, 1957	Soviet Union	Kyshtym Disaster	50%
March 17, 1989	United States	Calvert Cliffs units 1 & 2 shutdown due to equipment failures	0%
April 26, 1986	Soviet Union	Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown	0%
February 16, 2002	United States	Corrosion of reactor vessel leads to two year shutdown of Davis-Besse reactor	0%
October 5, 1966	United States	Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station meltdown	0%
September 2, 1996	United States	Equipment malfunction leads to shutdown of Crystal River unit 3	0%
July 25, 2006	Sweden	Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant safety systems failures	0%
March 11, 2011	Japan	Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster	0%
December 7, 1975	East Germany	Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant fire	0%
January 5, 1976	Czechoslovakia	Jaslovske Bohunice fuel replacement malfunction	0%
January 21, 1969	Switzerland	Lucens Reactor loss-of-coolant incident	0%
September 12, 2012	France	Marcoule Nuclear Site explosion	0%
August 9, 2004	Japan	Mihama Nuclear Power Plant steam explosion	0%
February 20, 1996	United States	Millstone Nuclear Power Plant units 1 & 2 shutdown due to equipment malfunctions	0%
January 3, 1961	United States	National Reactor Testing Station explosion	0%
December 19, 1987	United States	Nine Mile Point Unit 1 shutdown due to malfunctions	0%
April 10, 2003	Hungary	Paks Nuclear Power Plant suffers collapse of fuel rods	0%
March 31, 1987	United States	Peach Bottom units 2 & 3 shutdown due to cooling malfunctions	0%
April 11, 1986	United States	Recurring problems causes emergency shutdown of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant	0%
May 4, 1986	West Germany	Release of fission products by experimental reactor	0%
September 15, 1984	United States	Six year outage at Browns Ferry Unit 2 caused by design flaws	0%
March 1992	Russia	Sosnovy Bor Nuclear Plant leaks radioactive iodine	0%
December 9, 1986	United States	Surry Nuclear Power Plant feedwater pipe failure	0%
March 9, 1985	United States	System malfunction leads suspension of operations at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant	0%
March 28, 1979	United States	Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown	0%
September 30, 1999	Japan	Tokaimura Nuclear Accident	0%
October 19, 1989	Spain	Vandellos Nuclear Power Plant fire	0%