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World's ten worst nuclear accidents ever

New Delhi:  The man who first developed the idea of a nuclear chain reaction was Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd. The first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon was performed by the U.S. on July 16,

India TV News Desk Updated on: November 01, 2013 6:52 IST
3. Windscale fire-United Kingdom

 

Windscale was an air-cooled graphite-moderated reactor with no containment structure.On October 8, 1957.



Fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms.

AAs per UK government record around 33+ cancer fatalities have been reported because of this accident.

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