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Time Line - On This Walking Day
April 17th,1970
Plutonium spillage into the ocean.

Incident involving a vehicle at a French nuclear test site in the South Pacific causes a plutonium spillage into the ocean.


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Time Line - On This Walking Day
April 17th,1973
Numerous cracks discovered.

Millstone 1, Connecticut., U.S.A. - Numerous cracks were discovered in the pipes of the cooling system. Radioactive mist escaped and activated radiation alarms on nuclear submarines docked at Waterford. ("Wall Street Journal" 3/5/1973)

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