Showing posts with label Incidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Incidents. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Monday, 28 April 2014
Wind Turbine on Fire
(Netherlands) – Two young mechanics, ages 19 and 21, died when a fire broke out in a wind turbine where they were performing routine maintenance. The tragedy occurred at Deltawind’s Piet de Wit wind farm in the Netherlands, but highlights the hazards associated with fires caused by wind turbines.
26 April,1986 Chernobyl Accident
The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and resulting deaths, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011).The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion Rubles.
During the accident itself 31 people died, and long-term effects such as cancers and deformities are still being accounted for.
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