Energy Disasters Around The World

An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant shortly after the 1986 explosion of its smoking fourth reactor. (Reuters/File)

Vika Chervinska, an eight-year-old Ukrainian cancer patient, waits with her mother to receive treatment at the Kiev children's hospital in 2006. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A fire truck sprays water at No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami damaged the facility. (Reuters/Self Defense Force Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapon Defense Unit via Reuters TV)

Nagashima Rio, who was born four days after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, is tested for possible nuclear radiation at a local evacuation center. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

West Virginia State Police direct traffic at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Montcoal, W.Va. 29 coal miners were killed in the April 2010 explosion, one of the worst mining disasters in the US. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)

Steam still rises from the ground due to a 1962 Pennsylvania underground coal mine fire, the worst disaster of its kind in U.S. history. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

A rescued miner is carried above ground after a 2004 flooding accident at a coal mine in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Shen Qiao)

Damage at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia after a 2009 turbine malfunction led to flooding and a building collapse that killed 75 people. (AP Photo/ Rossiiskaya Gazeta Newspaper)

U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies respond to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico. (Otto Candies/US Coast Guard Press)

A man holds a plastic bag with oil from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill south of Freemason Island, Louisiana in 2010. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)