Environmental Effects of Accidents
See also: Nuclear and radiation accidents and Nuclear safetyThe worst accidents at nuclear power plants have resulted in severe environmental contamination. However, the extent of the actual damage is still being debated.
Read more about this topic: Environmental Impact Of Nuclear Power
Famous quotes containing the words effects and/or accidents:
“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)