OCTOBER 1999 Kyrgyzstan, Kara Balta: Two individuals are arrested trying to sell plutonium.
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1987 USA, Fort St. Vrain nuclear plant in Colorado: Leaking oil causes fire in the turbine area. Control room cables, valves and instruments are massively damaged.
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1961 USSR: Above-ground nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk test site in eastern Kazakhstan and Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic.
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2004 France, near Paris: A truck with 4.5 tons of enriched uranium from Lingen (Germany) bound for Blayais nuclear plant is involved in a rear-end collision accident.
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1986 Atlantic Ocean: The Soviet nuclear submarine K-219 sinks about 1.000 km north-east of Bermuda a few days after a fire and explosion.
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In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis builds up between the USA and the USSR – the height of the cold war. A nuclear war seems possible.
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1957 UK, Windscale (now Sellafield): Major fire in the reactor for plutonium production. Substantial amounts of radioactivity are released into the environment.
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Muslomovo: Farida Valeva (41) may soon lose the ability to walk, and is already restricted to limited use of her hands. Her jaw has shrunk and she suffers from severe bone pain.