Other memorial sites from around the globe

Minamata Disease Municipal Museum It collects and preserves valuable materials about Minamata disease which is considered as one of the earliest pollution problems in Japan that began in 1956 when Chisso Company started spilling Mercury in the sea. It exhibit and tell the history and present situation of Minamata disease and the hard situations that patients experienced. As many as 700,000 people from within Japan and from over 175 foreign countries have visited the museum. Oppauer nitrogen site memorial Explosion of Oppauer nitrogen site of BASF (A German Company) took place on 21 September 1921 in front of the Palatine community Oppau (Germany), which was in 1938 in the city of Ludwigshafen. Now it is the state of Rhineland- Palatinate. It claimed 561 lives and left 2000 injured. Almost all buildings were destroyed or damaged in Oppau. In the cemetery of Oppau a memorial stone was erected. In memory of the disaster wears a street within the BASF plant site the name "funnel street. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Memorial On April 26, 1986, an explosion during testing sent radioactive fallout into the atmosphere that fatally contaminated the nearby areas and sending radioactive fallout across Europe. The resulting fire lasted 10 days, and released as much radiation as 400 Hiroshima bombs. Today, tour groups travel up to within 300 meters of the destroyed reactor, which, despite being cocooned with a concrete sarcophagus, still emits more than 25 times normal ambient radiation,and standing so close has to be limited to about 10 minutes.