1989 Nuclear Accident Articles

  • 1/25/89 - MX Warheads Are Removed After Mishap

    Du Pont Blamed for Reactor Damage

  • 2/15/89 - Falling Missile Jars Loose Shower of Bills
  • 2/24/89 - Va Power Plant Releases Radioactive Gas

  • 2/26/89 - Groups Urge Nuclear Arms Control

  • 3/15/89 - Classified Top Secret: H-Bomb Overboard

  • 3/22/89 - Trident II Missile Fails in First Undersea Launch

  • 3/28/89 - Rig Carrying Radioactive Motor Breaks

  • 4/10/89 - Soviets Say 42 Killed Aboard Sub

  • 5/4/89 - DOE Estimate of Ohio A-Plant Emissions Called Low

  • NRC Knew of whistle-Blower Payment

  • 5/9/89 - U.S. Confirms '65 Loss of H-Bomb

  • 5/25/89 - Fire on U.S. Warship in 1975 Reportedly Neared A- Weapons

  • 6/30/89 - Plans for Low- Level, Nuclear Dumps Generate Growing Citizen Opposition

    3 governors take take hard line

    Idaho Bars Plutonium Wastes

  • 7/13/89 - Arms-Fraud Probes Dropped

  • 7/21/89 - U.S. Subs Had 42 Collisions Since 1983

  • Jul/Aug 89 - Naval Nuclear Accidents

  • 8/13/89 - Navy eyes evaluations for nuclear clearances

  • 8/14/89 - A Dose of Nuclear Fallout

  • 9/1/89 - Thawing the Cold War
  • 9/30/89 - Soviets Exposed Troops to Nuclear Bomb Test
  • 12/16/89 - Trident Two Missile Launch Indicates Flaw is Fixed
  • 12/19/89 - Plutonium Emissions Concealed