Treviso Nuclear Crisis

Treviso Nuclear Crisis
The Treviso Nuclear Power Plant in the distance behind the city of Treviso after the disaster
Date January 26-31, 1992 Location Treviso, West Chanchajilla Result City of Treviso evacuated Overhaul of West Chanchajilla's energy programs
Casualties and losses
803 deaths in explosion 5,600+ deaths related to radiation

The Treviso Nuclear Crisis was a disasterous nuclear meltdown which registers as one of the worst man-made disasters in world history, as well as the worst nuclear accident in world history. On January 26th, 1992, a nuclear reactor near Treviso, West Chanchajilla, shut down unexpectedly. The workers at the facility had little training, and the strain of continuous small errors led to the overheat and shutdown of one of the seven reactors. For roughly three days, the station was simply abandoned and closed, but the building heat (unknown to the facilities employees) resulted in a combustion explosion, destroying the reactor’s core, outer walls, and damaging the two reactors next to it. The damage then increased drastically as low-pressure systems caused cold air to vent into the heated cores, causing sparks that ignited a slimmed nuclear explosion.

The reactor was located adjacent to the city of Treviso, and the explosion allowed radiation to escape that devastated the outskirts of the city, killing an estimated 5,600 people over the following three years. The West Chanchajillan government under President Parish White tried to cover up the incident, however when scientists detected the radiation plume in the atmosphere directly above Zamastan airspace, President Elijah Daniels called the West Chanchajillan President as a show of force to block the contamination. Facing possible armed conflict over the crisis, a multinational delegation led by the Cadairi and Elborran governments brokered a treaty between the two nations, allowing for scientists to eradicate the contamination zone, evacuate citizens, and overhaul many nations' energy programs.