In the early morning of December 3, 1984, an accident occurred at a chemical plant in the Indian city of Bhopal. The Bhopal disaster has been called the Hiroshima of the chemical industry. In just one hour, more than half a million people were poisoned. About 4,000 people died on the day of the accident, 8,000 within two weeks. Never before has the world known such nightmarish man-made disasters. Let's hope he doesn't find out. Although accidents of various scales with severe consequences for humans and nature occur in the world every year. Vesti.Ru recalls the seven most severe, in our opinion, disasters.
The cause of the terrible disaster in Bhopal has not yet been officially established. Among the versions, a gross violation of safety regulations and deliberate sabotage of the enterprise's work predominate. It is known for certain that on the fateful night of December 2-3, a lethal gas leak occurred at the Union Carbide chemical plant, which specialized in the production of pesticides. A poisonous cloud passed through the neighboring territories, sleeping residents woke up from an unbearable burning sensation in their throats and eyes.
As a result, only in the first hours 3787 people died. This is according to official statistics, but according to unofficial estimates, eight to ten thousand people died in the first days of the accident. Poisoned nature also perished - leaves fell from the trees, the grass turned yellow, and the corpses of animals lay everywhere. Over the next few years, nearly 16,000 more people died. Tens of thousands went blind. And today, twenty-nine years later, thousands of people are suffering from the consequences of the world's largest man-made disaster.
Chernobyl accident
On April 26, 1986, another global catastrophe of the 20th century occurred - the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the territory of the former USSR. It is considered the worst nuclear accident in human history. The destruction was explosive, the reactor was completely destroyed, and a large amount of radioactive substances was released into the environment. During the first three months after the accident, 31 people died. The consequences of exposure, identified over the next 15 years, caused the death of 80 people. 134 suffered radiation sickness of varying degrees of severity. More than 135,000 people living within a radius of 30 kilometers from the destroyed reactor - and 35,000 livestock - were evacuated.
An exclusion zone of unprecedented size has been created around the station, located near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. The cloud formed from the burning reactor carried various radioactive materials over the vast territories of Europe and the Soviet Union.
Piper Alpha oil rig explosion
On July 6, 1988, an explosion occurred on the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea. This accident is recognized as the worst disaster in the history of the oil industry. Piper Alpha became the world's only oil platform that burned down completely. As a result of a gas leak and subsequent explosion, as well as as a result of ill-considered and indecisive actions of the personnel, 167 people out of 226 who were on the platform at that moment were killed, only 59 survived. The platform was owned by the American oil company Occidental Petroleum.
Explosion at a chemical plant in Toulouse
On September 21, 2001, an explosion occurred at the AZF chemical plant in the French city of Toulouse, the consequences of which are considered one of the largest man-made disasters. Exploded 300 tons of ammonium nitrate, which were in the warehouse of finished products. According to the official version, the management of the plant is to blame, which did not ensure the safe storage of an explosive substance.
The consequences of the disaster were gigantic: 30 people were killed, the total number of injured was more than 300, thousands of houses and buildings were destroyed or damaged, including almost 80 schools, 2 universities, 185 kindergartens, 40,000 people were left without a roof over their heads, more than 130 enterprises have actually ceased their activities.
A series of explosions at a mine in the Kemerovo region
On March 19, 2007, a methane explosion at the Ulyanovsk mine in the Kemerovo region killed 110 people. Following the first explosion, four more explosions followed in 5-7 seconds, which caused extensive collapses in the workings in several places at once. The chief engineer and almost all the management of the mine were killed. This accident is the largest in Russian coal mining over the past 75 years.
The disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station
On August 17, 2009, a man-made disaster occurred at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, located on the Yenisei River. This happened during the repair of one of the HPP's hydroelectric units. As a result of the accident, the 3rd and 4th water conduits were destroyed, the wall was destroyed and the engine room was flooded. 9 out of 10 hydraulic turbines were completely out of order, the hydroelectric power station was stopped.
The accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP is considered one of the most significant in the history of the world's hydropower industry. 75 people died. The consequences of the accident affected the ecological situation in the water area adjacent to the HPP, the social and economic spheres of the region.
Accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1"
March 11, 2011 in the north-east of Japan at the nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1" after a strong earthquake occurred the largest accident in the last 25 years after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After tremors of magnitude 9.0, a 14-meter tsunami wave came to the coast, which flooded four of the six nuclear power plant reactors and disabled the reactor cooling system, which led to a series of hydrogen explosions and a meltdown of the core.
The consequence of the emergency was the release of radiation into the environment, after which radioactive substances were found in drinking water, vegetables, tea, meat and other products. The complete elimination of the accident, including the dismantling of the reactors, will take about 40 years.
Speaking of man-made disasters, they mean oil spills, nuclear disasters, major accidents at factories. All of them had consequences both for the local population and for the environment.
Nuclear and atomic disasters
Nuclear energy remains the most dangerous in disasters and catastrophes. Accidents at such facilities are assessed on a seven-point scale.Chernobyl disaster (Ukraine)
The largest disaster to date is considered to be at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which occurred in 1986. During the explosion at the station, the fourth reactor was completely destroyed. The fire lasted for two weeks, it could not be extinguished.Radioactive substances thrown into the air, led to the death of 56 thousand people. Belarus, the west of Russia and the north of Ukraine were subjected to the greatest infection.
Fukushima (Japan)
The most recent terrible nuclear disaster is recognized as an accident that occurred in 2011 in Japan at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This happened after a nine-magnitude earthquake. The disaster caused the death of more than 25 thousand people. But its main consequence is a global radiation threat associated with damage to the reactor at a nuclear power plant. 
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (USA)
In the history of America, the worst accident is considered an accident in the state of Pennsylvania in 1979. It happened at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Due to the failed cooling system, partial melting of some elements of the reactor occurred. 
The largest emergency situations at enterprises
The terrible incidents that went down in history also occurred at enterprises, which we will talk about in more detail.Chemical plant "Mayak" (Chelyabinsk-40, Russia)
In 1959, a serious man-made accident occurred at a chemical plant in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40, which was declassified only after 1999. 
The explosion raised radioactive substances to a height of up to 2 kilometers, which settled, polluting an area equal to 23 thousand square meters. km.
Medical Clinic (Goiania, Brazil)
The tragedy happened in 1987. The medical clinic in the Brazilian city of Goiania was no longer active. From this abandoned clinic, several people stole a container containing radioactive powder. 
The landfill owner, who bought this container from marauders, demonstrated the luminous powder in it to his friends. The area near the city turned out to be contaminated, and it will be possible to live on it again only after 300 years.
Biggest oil spills
More than a hundred states faced the problem of an oil spill, which had significant environmental consequences, comparable to nuclear explosions.Oil platform explosion (Gulf of Mexico)
The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform became world famous in 2010 after an explosion occurred on it, as a result of which crude oil flowed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for three and a half months. Thus, 670 thousand tons of oil got into the water.Liquid tanker wreck (Brittany coast)
In 1978, a massive oil spill occurred off the coast of Brittany, caused by the wreck of the tanker Amoco Cadiz. 23,000 crude oil spilled into the sea. The sea coast of France was polluted for two hundred miles. 
Due to the conduct of hostilities, it was too late to deal with the consequences of this catastrophe: 600 km of the coasts were already polluted. A thousand square kilometers of the surface of the bay was covered with oil.
The worst man-made disaster in human history
The worst man-made disaster in history is considered to be an explosion at a chemical plant in the Indian city of Bhopal. The tragedy occurred in early December 1984. 
About 20 thousand people died as a result of the disaster, up to 600 thousand were injured. The water and the territory of the city and its environs remain contaminated to this day. There have been other terrible events in history, but man is not to blame for all. Sometimes grandiose destruction and mass casualties occurred at the behest of nature. The site has an article about the most terrible events of the 20th century.
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Catastrophes often occur due to an absurd coincidence of events and lead to irreparable consequences. Recently, environmental disasters have most often occurred, leaving huge scars on the body of our planet. We have prepared a selection of the largest disasters that have cost mankind record amounts. So, to your attention are the 10 largest and most expensive man-made disasters, most of which occurred during the last century.
In the first place is the most global man-made environmental disaster - the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This catastrophe cost the world 200 billion dollars, despite the fact that the liquidation work is not even half completed. On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former USSR. More than 135,000 people who lived within a 30 kilometers (19 miles) radius of the destroyed reactor - and 35,000 livestock - were evacuated; around the station, located near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, an exclusion zone of unprecedented size was created. In this forbidden territory, nature itself had to cope with the high levels of radiation caused by the disaster. As a result, the exclusion zone essentially turned into a giant laboratory where an experiment was set up - what happens to plants and animals in conditions of catastrophic nuclear contamination of the area? Immediately after the disaster, when everyone was worried about the dire consequences of radioactive fallout for human health, few people thought about what would happen to the wildlife inside the zone - and even more so about monitoring what was happening. 
The Chernobyl disaster will long remain the largest and costliest environmental disaster. In second place is the explosion of the US space shuttle Columbia, which cost $13 billion, which is 20 times less in cost and millions of times less in environmental impact. 
The Columbia shuttle was the first operational reusable orbiter. It was made in 1979 and transferred to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle Columbia was named after the sailboat that Captain Robert Gray explored the inland waters of British Columbia in May 1792. The space shuttle Columbia died in a crash on February 1, 2003, while entering the Earth's atmosphere, before landing. This was Columbia's 28th space voyage. The information from Columbia's hard drive was recovered, the causes of the crash were identified, which made it possible to avoid such disasters in the future. 
In third place is again an ecological disaster. On November 13, 2002, the oil tanker Prestige exploded, spilling 77,000 tons of fuel into the ocean, making it the largest oil spill in European history. Losses in the course of work to eliminate the oil slick amounted to 12 billion dollars. 
Fourth place - the death of the shuttle Challenger. Nothing foreshadowed the tragedy during the launch of the Challenger space shuttle on January 28, 1986, but 73 seconds after launch, it exploded. This accident cost American taxpayers $5.5 billion. 
In fifth place The explosion on the Piper Alpha oil platform - occurred on July 6, 1988, which is recognized as the most terrible disaster in the history of the oil industry. The accident cost $3.4 billion. 
Piper Alpha is the world's only burned-out oil platform. As a result of a gas leak and subsequent explosion, as well as as a result of ill-considered and indecisive actions of the personnel, 167 people out of 226 who were on the platform at that moment died, only 59 survived. Immediately after the explosion, oil and gas production was stopped on the platform, however, due to the fact that the pipelines of the platform were connected to the general network, through which hydrocarbons flowed from other platforms, and for a long time there was no production and supply of oil and gas to the pipeline. decided to stop (waiting for permission from the top management of the company), a huge amount of hydrocarbons continued to flow through pipelines, which supported the fire. 
Ecology is in sixth place again. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989. This is the largest oil spill in human history. More than 11 million gallons of oil entered the water. $2.5 billion was spent to eliminate the consequences of this ecological catastrophe. 
Seventh place - the explosion of a B-2 stealth bomber. The crash occurred on February 23, 2008, and cost US taxpayers a million and a half dollars. Fortunately, no one was hurt, only financial costs followed. 
Eighth place - Metrolink passenger train crash. The train collision that occurred on September 12, 2008 in California is more about negligence. Two trains collide, 25 dead, MetroLink loses $500 million 
In ninth place, the collision of a fuel tanker and a passenger car took place on August 26, 2004 on the Wiehltal bridge in Germany. This catastrophe, which occurred on August 26, 2004, can be attributed to accidents on the roads. They happen often, but this one surpassed everything in scale. The car, passing over the bridge at full speed, crashed into a full fuel truck going to the meeting, an explosion occurred, which practically destroyed the bridge. By the way, the restoration work of the bridge took 358 million dollars. 
The death of the Titanic closes the top ten most expensive catastrophes. The tragedy occurred on April 15, 1912 and claimed 1523 human lives. The cost of building the ship amounted to $ 7 million (in today's exchange rate - $ 150 million).
Image copyright RIA Novosti Image caption The accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station claimed the lives of 75 people
Among the largest man-made disasters in the recent history of Russia are accidents at mines and power plants, the death of aircraft and ships, fires and collapse of roofs of buildings.
December 2, 1997 - methane explosion at the Zyryanovskaya mine
A methane explosion at the Zyryanovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region killed 67 people. The accident was reported to have occurred during a shift change at a stope. The human factor was named as the main reason: the combine operator crushed the miner's self-rescuer (personal protective equipment against toxic combustion products), which provoked an explosion of methane gas that suddenly appeared in the face, followed by an explosion of coal dust.
A week before the explosion, there was a gas outbreak at the mine that burned five workers. However, the operation of the mine was not stopped. Experts note that none of the management staff of the mine was punished as a result of the investigation. Over the next ten years, the accident in Novokuznetsk remained the largest disaster in the Kuzbass.
August 12, 2000 - the death of the nuclear submarine "Kursk"
During the naval exercises of the Russian fleet in the Barents Sea, the nuclear submarine K-141 "Kursk" with cruise missiles sank. According to the official version, on the submarine, which was launched in May 1994, a torpedo exploded due to a leak of fuel components. The fire that arose two minutes after the first explosion led to the detonation of torpedoes located in the first compartment of the boat.
The second explosion caused even more damage. As a result, all 118 crew members died. As a result of the operation of lifting the submarine, completed a year later, 115 bodies of dead sailors were found and buried. "Kursk" was considered the best submarine of the Northern Fleet. Among other versions of the death of the Kursk, it was argued that it could have been torpedoed by an American submarine.
July 4, 2001 - Tu-154 crash in Irkutsk
The plane of the airline "Vladivostok Avia", making a flight on the route Yekaterinburg-Irkutsk, crashed while landing. As a result of the tragedy, 144 people died. In the conclusion of the state commission, the erroneous actions of the crew were named as the cause of the disaster. During the landing maneuver, speed was lost, after which the commander lost the ability to control the aircraft
Five years later, on July 9, 2006, when landing at the same airport in Irkutsk, the plane of Siberia Airlines failed to stop on the runway, rolled out of it and crashed into a garage complex. The investigation established the aircraft's engine problems due to crew error. Of the 203 people on board, 124 people died.
November 24, 2003 - fire in the hostel of RUDN University
A fire in one of the dormitory buildings of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia broke out at night, when most of the students were sleeping. The source of the fire was a room that was empty at the time of the fire. The fire spread to four floors. Students and employees of the university, jumping out of the windows on these floors, were seriously injured, some were killed. The fire claimed the lives of 44 people, mostly foreign students, about 180 people were hospitalized with burns and injuries. Six people were found guilty of the fire, including the vice-rector for administrative and economic activities of the university and the chief engineer of the university, as well as the inspector of the State Fire Supervision Service of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow, who received the most severe punishment - two years in prison in a colony-settlement.
February 14, 2004 - the collapse of the roof of the water park "Transvaal"
As a result of the collapse of the roof of a sports and entertainment complex in the south-west of Moscow, 28 people were killed, including eight children, and about 200 more people received injuries of varying severity. At the time of the accident in the water park, opened in June 2002, there were, according to various sources, from 400 to a thousand people, many of whom were celebrating Valentine's Day.
Among the main versions of the collapse, which were considered by the investigation, were violations in the design and construction of the building, as well as its improper operation. The prosecutor's office of the capital came to the conclusion that the chief designer of the water park project, Nodar Kancheli, was guilty, but then dropped the criminal case under an amnesty.
February 23, 2006 - the collapse of the roof of the Basmanny market
Image copyright AFP Image caption The collapse of the roof of the market, according to the commission, was the result of improper operationEarly in the morning in Moscow, the roof of the Basmanny market collapsed on an area of about 2000 square meters. meters. A total of 66 people were killed, dozens of people managed to be pulled out of the rubble alive. Two months after the disaster, the Moscow government commission ruled that the incident was the result of the systematic misuse of the building throughout its entire service life.
The floor planner for the market was Nodar Kancheli, designer of the Transvaal Park, whose roof collapsed two years earlier. The commission found that the roof of the market collapsed due to the breakage of one of the cables-cables on which it rested. And the cliff itself was the result of several reasons, among which was corrosion of the cable and unscheduled restructuring of the building.
March 19, 2007 - methane explosion at the Ulyanovsk mine
The accident at the mine "Ulyanovskaya" in the Kemerovo region claimed the lives of 110 people. 93 miners were rescued. The Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision announced that "gross violations of safety rules" were committed at the Ulyanovsk mine.
The governor of the region, Aman Tuleev, said that on the day of the accident, equipment was being installed at the mine to detect and localize gas leaks. Almost all the management of the mine went underground to check the operation of the system and died in the explosion. Three years later, the investigative committee at the prosecutor's office, after conducting an additional investigation, opened another criminal case into the accident at Ulyanovsk. Accidents with so many victims have never happened before in the mines of the USSR and Russia.
September 14, 2008 - Boeing 737 crash in Perm
An Aeroflot-Nord aircraft flying on the Moscow-Perm route crashed while landing. As a result of a collision with the ground, all people on board were killed - 88 people, including 7 children. Among the dead was the presidential adviser, Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Gennady Troshev.
This crash was the first for a Boeing 737 aircraft in Russia. The systemic cause of the accident was called "an insufficient level of organization of flight and technical operation of Boeing 737 aircraft in the airline." In addition, according to the results of a forensic medical examination, the fact of the presence of ethyl alcohol in the body of the ship's commander before his death was established.
August 17, 2009 - an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP
The largest in Russia and the sixth in the world hydroelectric power plant - Sayano-Shushenskaya - was stopped on August 17, when water poured into the engine room. Three of the ten generating hydroelectric units were completely destroyed, and all the rest were damaged.
Restoration work on the HPP on the Yenisei River is expected to take several years and be completed in 2014 at best. The largest accident in the history of Russian and Soviet hydropower resulted in the death of 75 people. The commission of the Russian State Duma, investigating the causes of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, named the names of about 20 station workers involved, in its opinion, in the tragedy.
The deputies recommended dismissing, among others, the general director of the hydroelectric power station, Nikolai Nevolko, and the chief engineer, Andrey Mitrofanov. In December 2010, the already former director of the Nevolko hydroelectric power station was charged with "violating safety regulations and other labor protection rules that resulted in the death of two or more persons."
December 5, 2009 - fire at the Lame Horse Club
Image copyright AP Image caption Most visitors to the Perm nightclub failed to get out into the streetThe largest fire in the history of post-Soviet Russia in terms of the number of victims occurred in the Perm nightclub Lame Horse. According to investigators, it began during a pyrotechnic show, when sparks hit the ceiling, made of dry wooden rods, and caused a fire. The club instantly began a stampede, due to which not everyone managed to get out of the cramped room.
The fire in the Lame Horse resulted in the death of 156 people, several dozen people received burns of varying degrees. In connection with the incident, a number of officials and officials of the fire supervision were fired, and the government of the Perm Territory in full force resigned. In June 2011, Spanish law enforcement agencies extradited Konstantin Mrykhin to their Russian colleagues, whom the investigation calls the co-founder of the club. In addition to him, eight other people are involved in the case.
May 9, 2010 - an accident at the mine "Raspadskaya"
At one of the largest coal mines in the world, located in the Kemerovo region, with a difference of several hours, two methane explosions occurred, as a result of which 91 people died. In total, about 360 miners were trapped underground, most of the miners were rescued.
In December 2010, 15 people who were in the mine at the time of the accident and were reported missing were declared dead by a court decision. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that Rostekhnadzor authorities had repeatedly made complaints about the condition of the equipment at Raspadskaya, but the mine management did not react to them in any way.
The director of the mine, Igor Volkov, who was charged with violating safety rules, resigned. The management of Raspadskaya estimated its damage at 8.6 billion rubles.
July 10, 2011 - the death of the ship "Bulgaria" on the Volga
The double-deck diesel-electric ship "Bulgaria", which was sailing from the city of Bolgar to Kazan, sank three kilometers from the coast. One of the factors that allegedly led to the disaster is called the congestion of the ship. According to some reports, after the alteration, the ship was designed to carry 140 passengers. However, tickets for the river trip on July 10 were sold much more. A quarter of those on board were children.
By the morning of July 14, the bodies of 105 of those who died in the crash were found, the fate of another 24 remains unknown. 79 passengers and crew members escaped. In connection with the death of the "Bulgaria", the Vasilyevsky court of Kazan has already arrested two people who are suspected of "providing services that do not meet safety requirements" - Svetlana Inyakina, general director of the ArgoRechTour company, which was the sub-tenant of the ship "Bulgaria", and Yakov Ivashov, senior expert of the Kama Branch of the Russian River Register.
Every year, dozens of terrible man-made disasters occur in the world, which cause significant harm to the world ecology. Today I invite you to read about a few of them in the continuation of the post.
Petrobrice is the Brazilian state oil company. The company headquarters is located in Rio de Janeiro. In July 2000, in Brazil, a disaster at an oil refinery spilled more than a million gallons of oil (about 3,180 tons) into the Iguazu River. For comparison, 50 tons of crude oil recently spilled near a resort island in Thailand.
The resulting stain moved downstream, threatening to poison the drinking water for several cities at once. The liquidators of the accident built several protective barriers, but they managed to stop the oil only at the fifth. One part of the oil was collected from the surface of the water, the other went through specially constructed diversion channels.
Petrobrice paid a $56 million fine to the state budget and $30 million to the state budget.
On September 21, 2001, an explosion occurred at the AZF chemical plant in Toulouse, France, the consequences of which are considered one of the largest man-made disasters. Exploded 300 tons of ammonium nitrate (salt of nitric acid), which were in the warehouse of finished products. According to the official version, the management of the plant is to blame, which did not ensure the safe storage of an explosive substance.
The consequences of the disaster were gigantic: 30 people died, the total number of wounded was more than 300, thousands of houses and buildings were destroyed or damaged, including almost 80 schools, 2 universities, 185 kindergartens, 40,000 people were left without a roof over their heads, more than 130 enterprises have actually ceased their activities. The total amount of damage is 3 billion euros.
On November 13, 2002, off the coast of Spain, the oil tanker Prestige fell into a severe storm, in the holds of which there were more than 77,000 tons of fuel oil. As a result of the storm, a crack about 50 meters long formed in the ship's hull. On November 19, the tanker broke in half and sank. As a result of the disaster, 63,000 tons of fuel oil fell into the sea.
Cleaning the sea and coasts from fuel oil cost 12 billion dollars, the full damage to the ecosystem cannot be estimated.
On August 26, 2004, a fuel truck carrying 32,000 liters of fuel fell off a 100-meter-high Wiehltal bridge near Cologne in western Germany. After the fall, the tanker exploded. The culprit of the accident was a sports car that skidded on a slippery road, which caused the fuel tanker to skid.
This accident is considered one of the most costly man-made disasters in history - temporary repairs to the bridge cost $40 million, and full reconstruction - $318 million.
On March 19, 2007, a methane explosion at the Ulyanovsk mine in the Kemerovo region killed 110 people. Following the first explosion, four more explosions followed in 5-7 seconds, which caused extensive collapses in the workings in several places at once. The chief engineer and almost all the management of the mine died. This accident is the largest in Russian coal mining over the past 75 years.
On August 17, 2009, a man-made disaster occurred at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, located on the Yenisei River. This happened during the repair of one of the HPP's hydroelectric units. As a result of the accident, the 3rd and 4th water conduits were destroyed, the wall was destroyed and the engine room was flooded. 9 out of 10 hydraulic turbines were completely out of order, the hydroelectric power station was stopped.
Due to the accident, the power supply to the Siberian regions was disrupted, including the limited supply of electricity in Tomsk, and several Siberian aluminum smelters were cut off. As a result of the disaster, 75 people died and 13 were injured.
Damage from the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP exceeded 7.3 billion rubles, including environmental damage. The other day in Khakassia, a trial began on the case of a man-made disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in 2009.
October 4, 2010 in the west of Hungary there was a major environmental disaster. At a large aluminum smelter, an explosion destroyed the dam of a reservoir of toxic waste - the so-called red mud. About 1.1 million cubic meters of caustic substance flooded the cities of Kolontar and Decever, 160 kilometers west of Budapest, with a 3-meter stream.
Red mud is a residue that forms during the production of alumina. When it comes into contact with the skin, it acts on it like an alkali. As a result of the disaster, 10 people died, about 150 received various injuries and burns.
April 22, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the US state of Louisiana, after an explosion that killed 11 people and a 36-hour fire, the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform sank.
The oil leak was stopped only on August 4, 2010. About 5 million barrels of crude oil spilled into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The platform on which the accident occurred belonged to a Swiss company, and at the time of the man-made disaster, the platform was operated by British Petroleum.
On March 11, 2011, in the northeast of Japan, at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, after a strong earthquake, the largest accident in the last 25 years after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred. Following earthquakes of magnitude 9.0, a huge tsunami wave came to the coast, which damaged 4 of the 6 reactors of the nuclear power plant and disabled the cooling system, which led to a series of hydrogen explosions, melting the core.
The total emissions of iodine-131 and caesium-137 after the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant amounted to 900,000 terabecquerels, which does not exceed 20% of the emissions after the Chernobyl accident in 1986, which then amounted to 5.2 million terabecquerels.
Experts estimated the total damage from the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant at $74 billion. The complete elimination of the accident, including the dismantling of the reactors, will take about 40 years.
NPP "Fukushima-1"
On July 11, 2011, an explosion occurred at a naval base near Limassol in Cyprus, which claimed 13 lives and brought the island nation to the brink of economic crisis, destroying the island's largest power plant.
Investigators accused the President of the Republic, Dimitris Christofias, of negligently handling the problem of storing ammunition confiscated in 2009 from the Monchegorsk ship on suspicion of arms smuggling to Iran. In fact, the ammunition was stored right on the ground on the territory of the naval base and detonated due to the high temperature.
Destroyed Mari power plant in Cyprus
On February 28, 2012, an explosion occurred at a chemical plant in the Chinese province of Hebei, killing 25 people. An explosion took place in the shop for the production of nitroguanidine (it is used as rocket fuel) at the chemical plant of the Hebei Keer company in the city of Shijiazhuang
April 18, 2013 in the US city of West, Texas at the fertilizer plant there was a powerful explosion.
Almost 100 buildings in the district were destroyed, from 5 to 15 people died, about 160 people were injured, and the town itself became like a war zone or the set of another Terminator movie.
