The large accidents of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that changed public trust in energy systems, including the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the Fukushima Daiichi accident of 2011 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. A milestone belongs here when its cited article describes a major accident at a nuclear plant or offshore oil rig. It excludes the climate treaties, which have their own group.
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Chernobyl disaster (Wikipedia)
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On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded.
Fukushima nuclear accident (Wikipedia)
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On 11 March 2011, a major nuclear accident started at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Wikipedia)
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Beginning on 20 April 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform caused an oil spill and an environmental disaster off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.
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