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March 14th,1958 Nuclear weapons detonation. On March 14th, 1958 the former Soviet Union performed a nuclear bomb test. The test site was Russia, Novaia Zemlya. The delivery method or operation type was atmospheric. |
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March 14th,1958 Nuclear weapons detonation. On March 14th, 1958 the former Soviet Union performed a nuclear bomb test. The test site was Siberia. The delivery method or operation type was atmospheric. |
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March 14th,1961 A B-52 plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board in California (USA) California, USA - A B-52 carrying two nuclear weapons crashed. The high explosive did not detonate. No nuclear contamination. ("The National Times" - 15th March 1981) Idaho Falls, SL1, Idaho, USA. Reported as first MAJOR reactor accident in USA An explosion occurred, cause of which is still not known. Three men were killed instantly - their bodies were so severely irradiated that their exposed hands and heads had to be severed from their bodies and buried in a dump for radioactive waste. It took years to disassemble the wrecked plant and the burial ground will have to be guarded forever. Rescuers received high radiation doses. (Sources Goffman - Taplin, Poisoned Power, Rodale Preen, 1971; "Accidents, near Accidents and Leaks in the Nuclear Industry" Penelope Coeling for M.A.U.M.; "Les Amis de la Terre"; Jean Geue A.A.E.C.) |
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March 14th,1974 Leak of 115,000 gallons of highly radioactive waste. Hanford, WA., USA - Leak of 115,000 gallons of highly radioactive waste. Defective storage tank. This was the seventeenth leak at Hanford. (Nucleus, 25th July, 1979; Penelope Coleing, M.A.U.M.) |
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March 14th,1979 Five large nuclear plants closed. USA - US orders five large nuclear plants closed because of concern over their ability to withstand earthquakes. (Sydney Morning Herald, 15/3/1979) |
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March 14th,1990 Chernobyl Ukraine, USSR. Chernobyl Ukraine, USSR - On 3rd March the Government of the Ukraine announced that the three operating reactors at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station will be phased out of operation over the next five years and the station will then be completely closed. Pollution at Mogilev amounts to 45100 curies of Cesium-137 per square kilometer. More than 100,000 people are said to have fallen sick. 25% of children suffer from thyroid gland diseases and children below the age of two are reported to have died from cancer. In the Chernobyl zone, 2,700-3,000 people have fallen seriously ill, 17 million suffer acutely from the consequences of the disaster and one million have already suffered genetic damage. At Cherkassy, one in five babies are born with deformities. Limbs, eyes and ears are missing. Among children, three main types of diseases have been observed. Grey cataracts, blood diseases and liver diseases and cancer and collapse of the immune system (already seen in 3 year olds). In the Mogilev area, the numbers of babies born with deformities are as follows (according to "Sov. Kultura", October 1989): 1985 - 5 1986 - 21 1987 - 39 1988 - 84 1989 - 50 One of the most affected areas is that of Narodichi (Zitomir). The film Maximum Limit deals with the present situation there. It shows pictures of deformed calves, two-headed foals. The pollution in this area amount to 15-1,000 curies of Cesium-137 per square km. Every second child suffers from hyperthyroidism. After strong protests by the local populace, 12 villages of the Narodichi area are to be evacuated between now and 1993. 93,000 thousand inhabitants live in the whole area, 18,000 of whom are children. (Abstract of Dr. Bahro's paper (FRG); "The Nuclear Monitor" (US) 12/3/90; "Guardian" (US) 14/3/90; "WISE" 330 6/4/90). |
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March 14th,1997 20,000-30,000 gallons of plutonium contaminated water released. 20,000-30,000 gallons of plutonium contaminated water was released when a forty gallon tank of toxic chemicals explodes. The tank had been stored illegally at the US Government's Hanford Engineers Works. It resulted in a cover up involving the contractors and the Department of Energy who denied the release of radioactive materials. They even went so far as telling workers that they had not been exposed to plutonium even though no tests had actually occurred. |
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