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page 1Environmental disasters in Europe

Chernobyl disaster
On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disaster, it is one of only two nuclear accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. It remains the worst nuclear disaster and the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of US$700 billion.
Ajka alumina plant accident
2010 industrial accident in Hungary
Seveso disaster
industrial accident
Kyshtym disaster
nuclear disaster
2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill
pollution
Zone rouge
collective name for environmentally devastated WWI battlefields in northeast France
Sandoz chemical spill
November 1986 environmental disaster in Switzerland
Doñana disaster
dam failure releasing toxic mine tailings in Andalusia, southern Spain
Talvivaara Mining Company
Ahtium (known until 2017 as the Talvivaara Mining Company; ) was a Finnish mining company that operated the Talvivaara nickel mine from the company's establishment in 2004 until the mining business was sold to the state-owned in 2015.
Lubrizol factory fire in Rouen in 2019
industrial accident
Pallas
cargo ship built in 1971
1930 Meuse Valley fog
1930 natural disaster