The 10th place is given to the Rajasthan NPP which is situated 65 km from Kota of Rajasthan state in India. In November 2002, the IAEA inspection assured that the reactor would be able to withstand the impact of extreme pressure. However, in 2012, 38 workers were exposed to a radioactive form of hydrogen called 'tritium' when a welding operation went wrong inside the protected environment of the reactor.
Three Mile Island NPP, Pennsylvania, USA, occupy the 5th line in this ranking of the most notorious nuclear power disasters. On 28th March, 1979, On March 28, 1979, a cooling circuit malfunctioned, allowing the primary coolant to overheat. The reactor shut down immediately. The release valve opened for ten seconds. That allowed enough coolant to escape to reduce pressure and heat. But it got stuck in the open position. As a result, all the coolant was released. There wasn't an instrument that could have alerted engineers that this had happened.
Fortunately, the amount released was not enough to harm local food supplies, animals, or people. The TMI-2 reactor was shut down. It took 12 years and cost $973 million to decontaminate to low levels of radiation. There were 10.6 megalitres of radioactive coolant that were processed, stored, and safely evaporated.About 100 tons of damaged radioactive fuel was put into 342 canisters. They were shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory and stored concrete containers.
The world's worst nuclear disaster after Chernobyl, and the only other accident to be given the top INES rating. An offshore earthquake on 11th March, followed by a tsunami, damaged the cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. A series of partial core meltdowns followed, and a fire at a spent fuel storage pond released radioactivity directly into the atmosphere.
Workers pumped both fresh and seawater into the plant in an effort to cool the systems, and were later forced to release 11,500 tonnes of low-radioactivity water back into the ocean.
At the time of writing, the disaster was still unfolding. Radioactive material has been released into both terrestrial and marine environments, including through a crack in one of the reactors. Elevated levels of radioactivity have been found in fish, vegetables and tap water, including in the Tokyo, Japan's capital city.
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