CHERNOBYL OF LEGAL DRINKING AGE!!!

In honor of Cherny's Birthday, here is a list of other nuclear disasters from around the world. Good Times.

December 12, 1952
Chalk River, Toronto, Canada, reactor core is nearly demolished when technician opened valves, melting some uranium fuel and boiling coolant. First major reactor accident.

November 1955
Experimental breeder reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, partially melts down during a test. Operator error listed as cause.

October 1957
Fire burns 11 tons of uranium, kills 32 people at Windscale (later Sellafield) plutonium production reactor, on northwest England's coast. Britain's worst nuclear accident. Operator error and defective procedures said to be cause.

March 1958
Explosion at nuclear plant in Fyshtym, Soviet Union, devastates region for hundreds of square miles. Russian scientist said hundreds killed.

January 1961
SL1 reactor at Idaho Falls explodes, emitting extremely high levels of radiation. Three men killed instantly.

October 5, 1966
Partial meltdown of Enrico Fermi experimental breeder near Detroit. Reactor permanently disabled.

December 7, 1975
Fire at Lubmin nuclear power complex near Greifswald on the Baltic coast in former East Germany causes near meltdown.

March 28, 1979
Three Mile Island
Worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. Series of human and mechanical failures lead to partial meltdown at Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Plant had opened just six months earlier.

April 26, 1986
Chernobyl
Worst nuclear accident in world history. Explosion and fire at Chernobyl nuclear reactor near Kiev, Ukraine, spews radiation over much of Europe; 31 die instantly, hundreds of thousands affected.

March 24, 1992
Sosnovy Bor
Loss of pressure in reactor channel releases radioactive iodine and inert gases into atmosphere near St. Petersburg, Russia.

November 1995
Monju
Reactor accident leaks two to three tons of sodium from cooling system in Japan.

March 1997
Tokaimura
Fire and explosion at state-run Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. reprocessing plant at Tokaimura, Japan. At least 35 exposed to radiation.

September 30, 1999
Workers trigger nuclear reaction by mixing too much uranium into storage tank at JCO Co. reprocessing plant in Tokaimura, Japan. At least 55 exposed to radiation.

* amazed we still have a planet? yeah, me too.