nuclear disaster

Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a Netflix documentary series about the 1979 partial nuclear meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant and the corporate misconduct alleged in its aftermath.

On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat in Soviet Ukraine exploded, releasing radioactive material across Europe and forcing the evacuation of 350,000 people. The disaster exposed systemic flaws in Soviet reactor design and safety culture that would reverberate for decades.

BP Exploration & Production was found guilty of gross negligence and willful misconduct in connection with the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 workers and triggered the largest environmental disaster in American history.