Worst Disasters

Worst Soviet & Russian Nuclear Power Plant Disasters

Over the past half-century, there have been numerous emergency shutdowns, power losses, fires, cooling line breaches and other dangerous event at Russian nuclear power plants (particularly at Leningrad, Kola and Balakovsky).

According to official government data, since 1949, Russian nuclear energy plants have had 385 “incidents” with varying degrees of seriousness (including 250 “failures”), in which 685 persons have been harmed. Some 383 persons have reportedly received serious radiation sickness and 56 have died.