17. It was commonly to think that nuclear energy is absolutely safe until some serious incidents occurred on nuclear power plants of the USA(Three Mile Island), Japan(Kashiwaszki-Kariwa) and the most dangerous incident in the former USSR (Chernobyl). The last of them had very serious consequences. All these events changed the opinion of people about the safety of nuclear energy. However the danger of nuclear energy was not only in the nuclear accidents.
18. Let’s see the full list of dangers connected with nuclear power plants: