List of nuclear power accidents by country

Deceased liquidators' portraits used for an anti-nuclear power protest in Geneva
The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, with the post-disaster Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the distance

Worldwide, many nuclear accidents and serious incidents have occurred before and since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Two thirds of these mishaps occurred in the US.[1] The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has concluded that technical innovation cannot eliminate the risk of human errors in nuclear plant operation.

  1. ^ Sovacool, Benjamin K. (January 2011). "Second Thoughts About Nuclear Power" (PDF). National University of Singapore. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-16.