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Nuclear Events, Incidents and  Disasters

This is a companion site to a 42eXplore project titled Nuclear Age. Housed below are links to websites on significant events, incidents, and a few disasters connected with nuclear history. Be sure to visit the parent site and also don't miss another webpage, Biographies of the Nuclear Age - - all from eduScapes.

Atomic Veterans History Project

http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/index.shtml

This website houses a collection of over 500 personal narratives of witnesses and participants in nuclear test events.

 

Chernobyl: Ten Years On Radiological and Health Impact from Nuclear Energy Agency, France

http://www.nea.fr/html/rp/chernobyl/chernobyl.html

Scroll to the table of contents to find articles about this nuclear power accident, its health impacts, and lessons learned.

Related Websites:

2) Chernobyl from PBS's Frontline

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/chernobyl.html

3) Chernobyl Children's Project http://www.adiccp.org/?/contents.html

4) Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster by R. Visscher http://www.chernobyl.co.uk/

5) Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Failure: Russian Meltdown . . .

http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/reactor.htm

6) Conclusions and Recommendations from International Conference: One Decade After

Chernobyl http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/thisweek/preview/chernobyl/conclsn9.html

7) Facts and Links from Chernobyl Children's Project http://www.adiccp.org/facts/index.html

 

Commando Raid to Norway (Vermork factory, Part 1 of 3) from A Moment in Time Archives

http://www.ehistory.com/world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=1502

One of the great fears of the Allied leadership in England and the United States during World War II was that Germany might build the first atomic bomb. Find the link to next section at upper right-hand corner of webpage.

Related Websites:

2) Pictures: "The Battle for Heavy Water - The Factory" http://members.chello.se/bjarne.gronnevik/factory_pics.html

3) Rjukan and the War http://www.rjukan-turistkontor.no/uk/rjukan/krigshistorie.asp

 

Copenhagen from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/hollywoodpresents/copenhagen/

Copenhagen is about Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, two of the great scientific minds of the 20th Century, trying to make sense of a meeting they had in September 1941, while World War II raged around them.

Related Website:

2) 'Copenhagen' Discussion Draws Overflow Crowd in Rainstorm

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/copenhagen.html

 

Discovery Of Radioactivity: The Dawn of the Nuclear Age from The National Health Museum

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/radioactivity.html

One hundred years ago, a group of scientists unknowingly ushered in the Atomic Age. Driven by curiosity, these men and women explored the nature and functioning of atoms.

 

Enola Gay and the Bombing of Hiroshima in World War II

http://www.theenolagay.com/

This is the official site of General Paul Tibbets and the Enola Gay, the plane that delivered the A-bomb.

 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport

http://www.mrdowling.com/706-hiroshima.html

Learn about about President Harry Truman and his decision to use the Atomic bomb.

Related Website:

2) A-Bomb WWW Museum http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/

3) Atomic Bomb: Decision http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html

4) Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from The Avalon Project

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm

5) City of Hiroshima http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/index-E.html

6) Damages Caused by Atomic Bombs

http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html

7) Documents Relating to the Development of the Atomic Bomb and Its Use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Links-site) http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm

8) Dropping the Bomb by M. Noble

http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/sammamish/sstudies.dir/hist_docs.dir/atomicbombs.mn.html

9) First Atomic Bomb is Detonated 1945 from PBS's A Science Odyssey

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp45at.html

10) Harry S. Truman Threatens Japan with Further Atomic Attacks from History Channel

http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_300.html

11) Hirohito / Japan http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/DOF/japan/captioned/notgod.htm

12) Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/hirosima.htm

14) Hiroshima Archive http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/

15) Hiroshima: A Survivor's Story from Scholastic

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/hiroshima/index.htm

16) Hiroshima/Nagasaki from Nuclear Files http://www.nuclearfiles.org/edstudyguides/drop.html and http://www.nuclearfiles.org/gallery/index.html

17) Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? by D. Long http://www.doug-long.com/

18) How Nuclear Bombs Work (Part 1 of 9) by C.C. Freudenrich from HowStuffWorks

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm

19) Remembering Nagasaki form The Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html

20) Schoolmaster's Experience of A-Bomb in Hiroshima from Nagatsuka Elementary School

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA001962/nagatuka/a-bomb1.html

21) Toge Sankichi: Hibakusha (A-bomb survivor) http://burn.ucsd.edu/atomic5.htm

22) Was Hiroshima Necessary to End the War? http://www.peacewire.org/photoexhibits/Hiroshima/articles/hironecessary.html

23) World War II Use of the Atomic Bomb http://www.fatherryan.org/nuclearincidents/wwII.htm

 

Human Radiation Experiments from U.S. Department of Energy

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/

This website tells the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects.

 

International Nuclear Event Scale (INES)

http://www.british-energy.com/education/factfiles/items/item55.html

This scale was created to convey to the public the safety significance of events in the nuclear industry.

Related Website:

2) General Description of the Scale http://www.rosatom.ru/english/stations/document/ines.htm

 

Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association, Inc.

http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/index.htm

This organization and its website are dedicated to preserving the historical importance of the Manhattan Project.

Related Websites:

2) Atomic Spaces http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/atomicspaces/

3) Conscience, Arrogation and the Atomic Scientists by J.J. Stone from Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/faspir/pir0894.html

4) Costs of the Manhattan Project http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/MANHATTN.HTM

5) First Atomic Bomb is Detonated 1945 from PBS's Science Odyssey

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp45at.html

6) Human Radiation Experiments by G.Kelly and L. Ricciuti

http://www.ask.ne.jp/~hankaku/english/niagara_fall.html#0002

7) Legacy of the Manhattan Project in Niagara Falls by G. Kelly and L. Ricciuti

http://www.ask.ne.jp/~hankaku/english/niagara_fall.html#0001

8) Manhattan Project http://www.tangischools.org/schools/phs/think/man/index.htm

9) Manhattan Project http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/nuclear/manhattan.html

10) Manhattan Project http://www.fatherryan.org/nuclearincidents/Manhatta.htm

11) Manhattan Project from Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport

http://www.mrdowling.com/706-manhattanproject.html

12) N.M. Gave Birth to Atomic Bomb by L. Calloway from Albuquerque Journal

http://www.abqjournal.com/2000/nm/past/6past09-19-99.htm

 

Meltdown at Three Mile Island from PBS's American Experience

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/

This site discusses what happened at this nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania.

Related Websites:

2) Three Mile Island http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-2-2002-31409.asp

3) Three Mile Island Alert http://tmia.com/

4) Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Disaster http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rkapadia/tmipage.html

5) Three Mile Island: A Splendid Little Reactor http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/3mile.htm

6) Three Mile Island Event http://www.nucleartourist.com/events/tmi.htm

 

Nuclear Accidents by B. Sharvy

http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/nukes.html

Here is a list of some of the accidents that have occurred in the two spheres of modern nuclear technology: energy production and the military. It is not a complete list, nor is it a list of the most serious nuclear accidents in history. Instead it is an account of various types of nuclear accidents, and a description of some of the most serious accidents within those types.

Related Websites:

2) Calendar of Nuclear Accidents from Greenpeace International http://archive.greenpeace.org/~comms/nukes/chernob/rep02.html

3) Nuclear Events/ERAMS Timeline (Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System) from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/erams/milestones.html

4) What Happens When It All Goes Wrong? http://www.geocities.com/nigson0690/screwups.html

 

Race for the Super Bomb from PBS American Experience

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/

At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan.

Related Website:

2) Early Years of the Bomb http://www.bullatomsci.org/research/collections/erlyearsofbmb.html

 

Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll by J. Niedenthal

http://www.bikiniatoll.com/history.html

This page traces the unique history of the island, nuclear testing, and the status of the Bikini people and their land today.

Related Website:

2) Dawn of the Nuclear Age http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/treasures/condon.htm

 

Nuclear Disaster in Japan from ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/japannuclear990930.html

A nuclear reaction at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Japan has been brought under control, but officials told more than 300,000 people to stay indoors, closed nearby schools and told farmers to stop harvesting.

Related Websites:

2) Experts Play Down Fallout Danger from BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462974.stm

3) Japan Nuclear Town 'Safe' from BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/462090.stm

4) Tokaimura Criticality Accident from World Nuclear Association

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf37.htm

 

Radioactive Waste from Hanford is Seeping Toward the Columbia by K.D. Steele, High Country News

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.URLRemapper/1997/sep01/dir/Feature_Radioactiv.html

Leaking tank wastes have traveled far beneath the tanks, 10 to 15 miles, and reached the groundwater near the Columbia, the largest river west of the Mississippi.

Related Websites:

2) Hanford News from the Tri-City Herald http://www.hanfordnews.com/

3) Hanford Nuclear Site http://www.whistleblower.org/article.php?did=18&scid=28

4) Hanford Site from U.S. Department of Energy http://www.hanford.gov/

5) Hanford Watch http://www.hanfordwatch.org/

6) Hour One: Nuclear Waste from Science Friday http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour1_040398.html

7) Impact of the Cold War on Washington: Hanford and the Tri-Cities

http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/hstaa432/lesson_24/hstaa432_24.html

 

Windscale Nuclear Incident

http://www.nucleartourist.com/events/windscal.htm

In 1957, the graphite moderator of one of the air-cooled plutonium production reactors at Windscale (now Sellafield), had a fire which resulted in the first significant release of radioactive material from a reactor.

Related Websites:

2) 1957 Windscale Reactor Fire http://www.lakestay.co.uk/1957.htm

3) Sellafield Incident http://www.aztecresearch.net/sellafield.htm

4) Windscale Accident 1957 http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/aa226/magazine/nfs978m.htm